## 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

GNU coreutils online help: <http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/>
Report dircolors translation bugs to <http://translationproject.org/team/>

## COPYRIGHT

Copyright © 2014 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 redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.

## SEE ALSO

Full documentation at: <http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/dircolors>
or available locally via: info (aq(coreutils) dircolors invocation(aq