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Manual Reference Pages  - DIRCOLORS (1)

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dircolors - color setup for ls

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dircolors [OPTION]... [FILE]

Output commands to set the LS_COLORS environment variable.

-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’.

Written by H. Peter Anvin.

Report bugs to <bug-coreutils@gnu.org>.

Copyright © 2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

The full documentation for dircolors is maintained as a Texinfo manual. If the info and dircolors programs are properly installed at your site, the command

	info coreutils dircolors

should give you access to the complete manual.

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