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DIRCOLORS(1) User CommandsDIRCOLORS(1)
dircolors - color setup for ls
dircolors[OPTION]... [FILE]
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--helpdisplay 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'.
Written by H. Peter Anvin.
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Full documentation <https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/dircolors> or available locally via: info '(coreutils) dircolors invocation'
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