Answer from Jim Meyering (GNU fileutils mainstream maintainer): > | I copied this to Jim Meyering hoping that he might be able to answer > | your question Michael. > | > | Michael Meskes writes: > | > Erick Branderhorst writes: > | > > This file is in the origianl fileutils source name: dircolors.hin > | > > but is not installed as you might have noticed. > | > > | > What's the reason for this behaviour? > > I changed dircolors (to be different from the original slackware version) > so that it doesn't read any fixed-filename config file. So it no longer > reads /etc/DIRCOLORS or $HOME/.whatever-that-name-was. > > I made that change to maintain some measure of orthogonality. Otherwise, > dircolors would have been the sole program to do such a thing in all of > the fileutils/textutils/sh-utils. > > As you probably noticed, I added the --print-data-base option to print > the default, compiled-in database. So now, the config file must be > specified when dircolors is run. > > % dircolors --help > Usage: dircolors [OPTION]... [FILE] > Output commands to set the LS_COLOR environment variable. > > Determine format of output: > -b, --sh, --bourne-shell output Bourne shell code to set LS_COLOR > -c, --csh, --c-shell output C shell code to set LS_COLOR > -p, --print-data-base output defaults > --help display this help and exit > --version output version information and exit
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