DIRCOLORS(1)

📦 version 0.12.0, in arch rolling

💅 DIRCOLORS(1) — the dircolors manual, but make it fashion 💅

okay so bestie, welcome to the General Commands Manual entry for dircolors, aka DIRCOLORS(1). it's giving "tiny command, big color energy" and we're gonna read it together, no cap. 🦋✨

🌸 NAME 🌸

dircolors — output commands to set the LS_COLORS environment variable. periodt.

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

dircolors [OPTION]... [FILE]

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

so like, dircolors outputs commands to set the LS_COLORS environment variable. that's the whole main character job, and honestly? iconic. 👑

🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

  • -b, --sh — output Bourne shell code to set LS_COLORS 🐚
  • -c, --csh — output C shell code to set LS_COLORS 🐚
  • -p, --print-database — print the byte counts 😭 (yes, that is literally the description, bestie — we do not make the rules)
  • --print-ls-colors — output fully escaped colors for display 🌈
  • -h, --help — print help 🫶
  • -V, --version — print version ⭐

🧚 EXTRA 🧚

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. iykyk 💅

ngl, that dircolors --print-database command is your little cheat sheet for the file format. don't sleep on it. 🍓

👑 VERSION 👑

the version is v(uutils coreutils) 0.12.0. yes bestie, that's the version string, character for character. 💜

catch u later, bestie — this iconic page is from version v(uutils coreutils) 0.12.0, dated 2026-09-17. stay colorful, fr fr. 🌈💅

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