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 DIRCOLORS(1)