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dircolors (1)

Name

dircolors - color setup for ls

Synopsis

dircolors [OPTION]... [FILE]

Description




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  pre-
     compiled  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/core-
     utils/>
     General  help  using GNU software: <http://www.gnu.org/geth-
     elp/>
     Report dircolors translation bugs to <http://translationpro-
     ject.org/team/>

COPYRIGHT
     Copyright  (C)  2012 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 redis-
     tribute it.  There is NO WARRANTY, to the  extent  permitted
     by law.






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User Commands                                        DIRCOLORS(1)



ATTRIBUTES
     See   attributes(5)   for   descriptions  of  the  following
     attributes:

     +---------------+--------------------+
     |ATTRIBUTE TYPE |  ATTRIBUTE VALUE   |
     +---------------+--------------------+
     |Availability   | file/gnu-coreutils |
     +---------------+--------------------+
     |Stability      | Uncommitted        |
     +---------------+--------------------+
SEE ALSO
     The full documentation for dircolors is maintained as a Tex-
     info  manual.   If the info and dircolors programs are prop-
     erly installed at your site, the command

          info coreutils 'dircolors invocation'

     should give you access to the complete manual.



NOTES
     This  software  was   built   from   source   available   at
     https://java.net/projects/solaris-userland.    The  original
     community       source       was       downloaded       from
     http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/coreutils/coreutils-8.16.tar.xz

     Further  information about this software can be found on the
     open source community  website  at  http://www.gnu.org/soft-
     ware/coreutils/.
























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