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
Report bugs to: bug-coreutils@gnu.org
GNU coreutils home page: <https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/>
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COPYRIGHT
Copyright © 2026 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU
GPL version 3 or later <https://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
SEE ALSO
Full documentation <https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/dircolors>
or available locally via: info '(coreutils) dircolors invocation'
GNU coreutils 9.10 March 2026 dircolors(1)
coreutils 9.10 - Generated Thu Apr 2 07:32:07 CDT 2026