| DIRCOLORS(1) | General Commands Manual | DIRCOLORS(1) |
NAME
dircolors - Output commands to set the LS_COLORS environment variable.
SYNOPSIS
dircolors [OPTION]... [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 precompiled database is used. For details on the format of these files, run 'dircolors --print-database'
VERSION
v(uutils coreutils) 0.11.0
| 2026-09-01 |