Manual: dircolors

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NAME
       dircolors - Output commands to set the LS_COLORS environment variable.

SYNOPSIS
       dircolors [-b|--sh] [-c|--csh] [-p|--print-database] [--print-ls-colors] [-h|--help] [-V|--version] [FILE]

DESCRIPTION
       Output commands to set the LS_COLORS environment variable.

OPTIONS
       -b, --sh
	      output Bourne shell code to set LS_COLORS

       -c, --csh
	      output C shell code to set LS_COLORS

       -p, --print-database
	      print the byte counts

       --print-ls-colors
	      output fully escaped colors for display

       -h, --help
	      Print help

       -V, --version
	      Print version

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

VERSION
       v(uutils coreutils) 0.8.0

							 2026-04-16						DIRCOLORS(1)