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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Directory colors Post 302081948 by Perderabo on Saturday 29th of July 2006 07:14:19 AM
Old 07-29-2006
It sounds like you were using the GNU version of ls.
 

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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
GNU coreutils online help: <http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/> Report dircolors translation bugs to <http://translationproject.org/team/> COPYRIGHT
Copyright (C) 2017 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 '(coreutils) dircolors invocation' GNU coreutils 8.28 January 2018 DIRCOLORS(1)
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