09-27-2017
Did you consider piping the query results into a while read ... loop? Alternatively, recent shells (your version of which you fail to mention) offer "process substitution" which is another mechanism to feed a command's / process' output into the stdin of other commands.
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dircolors
DIRCOLORS(1) FSF 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 bugs to <bug-coreutils@gnu.org>.
COPYRIGHT
Copyright (C) 2002 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICU-
LAR PURPOSE.
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 dircolors
should give you access to the complete manual.
dircolors (coreutils) 4.5.3 February 2003 DIRCOLORS(1)