dircolors

Options

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

dircolors-help-bourne-shell

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

dircolors-help-c-shell

--print-database, -p

dircolors-help-print-database

--print-ls-colors

dircolors-help-print-ls-colors

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 {{[-b|--bourne-shell]}}

Output commands for C shell:

dircolors {{[-c|--c-shell]}}

View the default colors for file types and extensions:

dircolors {{[-p|--print-database]}}

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.