dircolors

dircolors [OPTION]... [FILE]

Output commands to set the LS_COLORS environment variable.

Options

--sh, --bourne-shell, -b

output Bourne shell code to set LS_COLORS

--csh, --c-shell, -c

output C shell code to set LS_COLORS

--print-database, -p

print the byte counts

--print-ls-colors

output fully escaped colors for display

If FILE is specified, read it to determine which colors to use for which file types and extensions. Otherwise, a precompiled database is used. For details on the format of these files, run 'dircolors --print-database'

Examples

Output commands to set LS_COLOR using default colors:

dircolors

Display each filetype with the color they would appear in ls:

dircolors --print-ls-colors

Output commands to set LS_COLOR using colors from a file:

dircolors {{path/to/file}}

Output commands for Bourne shell:

dircolors --bourne-shell

Output commands for C shell:

dircolors --c-shell

View the default colors for file types and extensions:

dircolors --print-data

The examples are provided by the tldr-pages project under the CC BY 4.0 License.

Please note that, as uutils is a work in progress, some examples might fail.