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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Colors Post 302123413 by resullivan on Monday 25th of June 2007 02:35:17 PM
Old 06-25-2007
Colors

Is there a way with the bourne shell to have different types of files show up a different color when you do 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'. GNU coreutils online help: <http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/> Report dircolors translation bugs to <http://translationpro- ject.org/team/> AUTHOR
Written by H. Peter Anvin. COPYRIGHT
Copyright (C) 2013 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 8.22 June 2014 DIRCOLORS(1)
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