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Re: ls
From: |
Alfred M\. Szmidt |
Subject: |
Re: ls |
Date: |
Sun, 02 Oct 2005 13:39:09 +0200 |
I've been trying to find where the command 'ls' gets its color
information.
It gets the information from the enviroment variable LS_COLORS.
Usually, dircolors is used to set this envar, but what file it should
read is system dependant.
Anyway, this is already documented in the info manual:
,----[ (coreutils)dircolors invocation ]
| 10.4 `dircolors': Color setup for `ls'
| ======================================
|
| `dircolors' outputs a sequence of shell commands to set up the terminal
| for color output from `ls' (and `dir', etc.). Typical usage:
|
| eval `dircolors [OPTION]... [FILE]`
|
| If FILE is specified, `dircolors' reads 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'.
|
| The output is a shell command to set the `LS_COLORS' environment
| variable. You can specify the shell syntax to use on the command line,
| or `dircolors' will guess it from the value of the `SHELL' environment
| variable.
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