Manual: gnudircolors

DIRCOLORS(1)						User Commands						DIRCOLORS(1)

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

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

       --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
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       Report any translation bugs to 

SEE ALSO
       Full documentation 
       or available locally via: info '(coreutils) dircolors invocation'

       Packaged by Ubuntu (9.7-3ubuntu2)
       Copyright © 2025 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
       License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later .
       This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
       There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.

GNU coreutils 9.7					January 2026						DIRCOLORS(1)