VIFM-CONVERT-DIRCOLORS(1)

✨ vifm-convert-dircolors(1) ✨

okay bestie so this is a General Commands Manual page and it's literally all about vifm-convert-dircolors 🎀

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💖 NAME 💖

vifm-convert-dircolors — bestie it converts your ls colorscheme into a vifm colorscheme, no cap 🌈

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🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

vifm-convert-dircolors [-h|--help] [-e|--environment] [-r|--human-readable] [dircolors_file]

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🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

So what it does 💅: it takes your ls file highlighting configuration (that's the dircolors thing, iykyk) and turns it into a whole set of vifm highlight commands. Iconic behaviour honestly.

And where does it put them? straight to standard output ✨. That's it. That's the vibe. Output goes to stdout, periodt.

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👑 OPTIONS 👑

• -h, --help — shows you a lil brief help message 🫶 like a friend telling you what's up
• -e, --environment — tells the script to use the $LS_COLORS environment variable instead of pulling data from a file or from the standard input stream 🌈
• -r, --human-readable — outputs patterns on separate lines, so it's giving organized, it's giving readable 💖
• dircolors_file — converting of only the colorscheme file, just that one file bestie 📄

real talk tho: when both --environment and dircolors_file are absent? it reads the standard input stream 🙈 so don't leave it hanging with nothing.

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⭐ EXAMPLES ⭐

Parse $LS_COLORS and append the conversion results to ~/.config/vifm/colors/Default.vifm 🔥:

vifm-convert-dircolors -e >> ~/.config/vifm/colors/Default.vifm

Parse /etc/DIR_COLORS and store the conversion results in ~/.config/vifm/colors/ls-based.vifm 🌸:

vifm-convert-dircolors /etc/DIR_COLORS > ~/.config/vifm/colors/ls-based.vifm

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🧚 SEE ALSO 🧚

dircolors(1), ls(1), vifm(1) — go read those too, they're the whole friend group 💜

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💅 AUTHOR 💅

This manual page was written by xaizek <xaizek@posteo.net>. slay.

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okay that's the whole page bestie, mwah 😭💖

this was vifm 0.14.4, dated 31 May 2026, from the VIFM-CONVERT-DIRCOLORS(1) page 💖✨🦋 bye pookie 🫶