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

     --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 dircolors bugs to bug-coreutils@gnu.org
     GNU             coreutils             home             page:
     <http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/>
     General        help        using        GNU        software:
     <http://www.gnu.org/gethelp/>
     Report       dircolors       translation       bugs       to
     <http://translationproject.org/team/>

COPYRIGHT
     Copyright c 2010 Free  Software  Foundation,  Inc.   License
     GPLv3+:      GNU      GPL     version     3     or     later
     <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.
     This is free software: you are free to change and  redistri-
     bute  it.   There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by
     law.

SEE ALSO
     The full documentation for  dircolors  is  maintained  as  a



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     Texinfo  manual.   If  the  info  and dircolors programs are
     properly installed at your site, the command

          info coreutils dircolors invocation

     should give you access to the complete manual.

















































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