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

       --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/>

COPYRIGHT
       Copyright © 2009 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
       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 invocation'

       should give you access to the complete manual.

GNU coreutils 7.2                 March 2009                      DIRCOLORS(1)