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.TH DIRCOLORS 1 "2026-09-01"
.SH NAME
dircolors \- Output commands to set the LS_COLORS environment variable.
.SH SYNOPSIS
\fBdircolors\fR [OPTION]... [FILE]
.SH DESCRIPTION
Output commands to set the LS_COLORS environment variable.
.SH OPTIONS
.TP
\fB\-b\fR, \fB\-\-sh\fR
output Bourne shell code to set LS_COLORS
.TP
\fB\-c\fR, \fB\-\-csh\fR
output C shell code to set LS_COLORS
.TP
\fB\-p\fR, \fB\-\-print\-database\fR
print the byte counts
.TP
\fB\-\-print\-ls\-colors\fR
output fully escaped colors for display
.TP
\fB\-h\fR, \fB\-\-help\fR
Print help
.TP
\fB\-V\fR, \fB\-\-version\fR
Print version
.SH 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 \*(Aqdircolors \-\-print\-database\*(Aq
.SH VERSION
v(uutils coreutils) 0.11.0