Gnu/coreutils/dircolors-invocation
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10.4 dircolors
: Color setup for ls
dircolors
outputs a sequence of shell commands to set up the
terminal for color output from ls
(and dir
, etc.).
Typical usage:
eval "$(dircolors [option]… [file])"
If file
is specified, dircolors
reads 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
’.
To make dircolors
read a ~/.dircolors
file if it
exists, you can put the following lines in your ~/.bashrc
(or
adapt them to your favorite shell):
d=.dircolors test -r $d && eval "$(dircolors $d)"
The output is a shell command to set the LS_COLORS
environment
variable. You can specify the shell syntax to use on the command line,
or dircolors
will guess it from the value of the SHELL
environment variable.
The program accepts the following options. Also see Common options.
- ‘
-b
’
‘--sh
’
‘--bourne-shell
’ Output Bourne shell commands. This is the default if the
SHELL
environment variable is set and does not end with ‘csh
’ or ‘tcsh
’.- ‘
-c
’
‘--csh
’
‘--c-shell
’ Output C shell commands. This is the default if
SHELL
ends withcsh
ortcsh
.- ‘
-p
’
‘--print-database
’ Print the (compiled-in) default color configuration database. This output is itself a valid configuration file, and is fairly descriptive of the possibilities.
An exit status of zero indicates success, and a nonzero value indicates failure.
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