07-29-2006
It sounds like you were using the GNU version of ls.
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dircolors
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)