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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting How to use dir_colors to change color of files with executable privileges Post 302489194 by Caerus on Wednesday 19th of January 2011 06:19:50 PM
Old 01-19-2011
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Originally Posted by Chubler_XL
Best bet is to do dircolors -p > ~/.dircolors

Edit your ~/.dircolors and put your .inp at the top (or before EXEC) and then run eval $(dircolors -b ~/.dircolors)

This re-sets up the LS_COLORS env var, and that's what ls --color=auto uses
Could you explain what dircolors -p > ~/.dircolors does?

I can't believe I didn't think to put .inp at the top either. I'll give that a shot when I get to work tomorrow. Forum usage is blocked there.

Thanks!
 

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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
Report dircolors bugs to bug-coreutils@gnu.org GNU coreutils home page: <http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/> General help using GNU software: <http://www.gnu.org/gethelp/> Report dircolors translation bugs to <http://translationproject.org/team/> COPYRIGHT
Copyright (C) 2011 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 8.12.197-032bb September 2011 DIRCOLORS(1)
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