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DIRCOLORS

Section: User Commands (1)
Updated: September 2011
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NAME

dircolors - color setup for ls  

SYNOPSIS

dircolors [OPTION]... [FILE]  

DESCRIPTION

Output commands to set the LS_COLORS environment variable.  

Determine format of output:

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

output Bourne shell code to set LS_COLORS

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

output C shell code to set LS_COLORS

-p, --print-database

output defaults

--help

display this help and exit

--version

output version information and exit

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'.  

AUTHOR

Written by H. Peter Anvin.  

REPORTING BUGS

Report dircolors bugs to bug-coreutils@gnu.org
GNU coreutils home page: <http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/>
General help using GNU software: <http://www.gnu.org/gethelp/>
Report dircolors translation bugs to <http://translationproject.org/team/>  

COPYRIGHT

Copyright © 2011 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.shtml>.
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.  

SEE ALSO

The full documentation for dircolors is maintained as a Texinfo manual. If the info and dircolors programs are properly installed at your site, the command

info coreutils 'dircolors invocation'

should give you access to the complete manual.

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Index

NAME

SYNOPSIS

DESCRIPTION

Determine format of output:

AUTHOR

REPORTING BUGS

COPYRIGHT

SEE ALSO

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