dir_colors(5) File Formats Manual dir_colors(5) (NAME) dir_colors - dircolors(1) (DESCRIPTION) ls(1) LS_COLORS . : eval `dircolors some_path/dir_colors` /etc/profile /etc/csh.cshrc . ( : dircolors(1)). /etc/DIR_COLORS .dir_colors (override) . . (#) (comment) . . (global) TERM . . (terminal-specific) TERM ( TERM ) . . : TERM terminal-type . TERM . COLOR yes|all|no|none|tty ( dircolors(1) .) (yes all) (no none) (tty). no . EIGHTBIT yes|no ( dircolors(1) .) - ISO/IEC 8859 . 1 yes 0 no . no . OPTIONS options ( dircolors(1) .) ls . ls () . dircolors . NORMAL color-sequence ( ) . : NORM. FILE color-sequence . DIR color-sequence . LINK color-sequence . : LNK SYMLINK. ORPHAN color-sequence ( ) . ls LINK . MISSING color-sequence ( ) . ls FILE . FIFO color-sequence FIFO ( ) . : PIPE. SOCK color-sequence . DOOR color-sequence ( fileutils 4.1) door ( . ) . BLK color-sequence . : BLOCK. CHR color-sequence . : CHAR. EXEC color-sequence (executable) . SUID color-sequence set-user-ID . : SETUID. SGID color-sequence set-group-ID . : SETGID. STICKY color-sequence (sticky) . STICKY_OTHER_WRITABLE color-sequence (other-writable) . : OWT. OTHER_WRITABLE color-sequence . : OWR. LEFTCODE color-sequence << >> (left code) ISO/IEC 6429 ( ). : LEFT. RIGHTCODE color-sequence << >> (right code) ISO/IEC 6429 ( ). : RIGHT. ENDCODE color-sequence << >> (end code) ISO/IEC 6429 ( ). : END. *extension color-sequence extension . .extension color-sequence *.extension. .extension . ~ emacs . . ISO/IEC 6429 (ANSI) ISO/IEC 6429 (ANSI) xterm DEC VT100 ISO/IEC 6429 . ls ISO/IEC 6429 . ISO/IEC 6429 . : 0 1 4 5 30 31 32 33 ( ) 34 35 36 37 ( ) 40 41 42 43 ( ) 44 45 46 47 ( ) . ls : NORMAL 0 ( ) FILE 0 DIR 32 LINK 36 ORPHAN undefined MISSING undefined FIFO 31 (FIFO) SOCK 33 BLK 44;37 CHR 44;37 EXEC 35 . NORMAL FILE . ( ) ( !) ( ) . LEFTCODE RIGHTCODE ENDCODE . ls : LEFTCODE typecode RIGHTCODE filename ENDCODE typecode . ENDCODE LEFTCODE NORMAL RIGHTCODE . leftcode rightcode ( ) . . : ENDCODE . NORMAL . ENDCODE . (Escape sequences) (\) C (^) stty . C : \a (ASCII 7) \b (ASCII 8) \e (ASCII 27) \f (ASCII 12) \n (ASCII 10) \r (ASCII 13) \t (ASCII 9) \v (ASCII 11) \? (ASCII 127) \nnn ( ) \xnnn ( ) \_ \\ (\) \^ (^) \# (#) . (FILES) /etc/DIR_COLORS . ~/.dir_colors . dir_colors fileutils-4.1 . (NOTES) LEFTCODE RIGHTCODE ISO/IEC 6429 : LEFTCODE \e[ RIGHTCODE m ENDCODE . (SEE ALSO) dircolors(1), ls(1), stty(1), xterm(1) Linux man-pages 6.19 2026-02-08 dir_colors(5)