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LS_COLORS
This is a collection of extension:color mappings, suitable to use as your
LS_COLORS environment variable. Most of them use the extended color map,
described in the ECMA-48 document; in other words, you'll need a terminal
with capabilities of displaying 256 colors.
As of this writing, around 300 different filetypes/extensions is supported. That's indeed a lot of extensions, but there's a lot more! Your help is greatly appreciated.
Fork this project on github, add the extensions you are missing, and send a pull request.
Some guidelines:
For files that usually ends up next to each other, like html, css and js, try to pick colors that fits in nicely together. Filetypes with multiple possible extensions, like htm and html, should have the same color.
What does it look like?
Here's a screenshot (font and minor color shades, of course, depend on terminal and its configuration):
Installation
To install and use this file, put something like this in your shell resource file:
eval $( dircolors -b $HOME/.LS_COLORS )
A quick way to install would be the following set of commands (assuming bash):
wget https://raw.github.com/trapd00r/LS_COLORS/master/LS_COLORS -O $HOME/.LS_COLORS
echo 'eval $(dircolors -b $HOME/.LS_COLORS)' >> $HOME/.bashrc
. $HOME/.bashrc
Arch Linux
Arch Linux users can install the lscolors-git package from the AUR for easy
integration with bash, csh, or zsh.
zsh integration with Zplugin
There's a Zsh plugin manager Zplugin that nicely works with this repository
– dircolors will be ran only once on each update. So dircolors will not
read the LS_COLORS definitions and perform the computation each time a new
shell is started, but instead only once per trapd00r/LS_COLORS install
and per update (with zplugin update trapd00r/LS_COLORS) and only then
generating the script c.zsh containing the dircolors output and after this
just sourcing it when the shell starts, thus making the shell to startup faster:
zplugin ice atclone"dircolors -b LS_COLORS > c.zsh" atpull'%atclone' pick"c.zsh"
zplugin load trapd00r/LS_COLORS
ZSH syntax highlighting
zsh-syntax-highlighting-filetypes highlights file on the command-line in realtime, using these colors.
fish shell
eval ( dircolors --c-shell $HOME/.LS_COLORS)
Place it in ~/.config/fish/config.fish or any *.fish* file inside ~/.config/fish/conf.d/ to be loaded.
Information for Developers
There's a library I've written that lets you use various LS COLORS on arbitrary files and directories. A simple implementation can be found here.
Using this, you can do
find $HOME -maxdepth 1 | ls_color
mpc search artist Laleh | ls_color
... and so on.
Legal
© Copyright 2014-2018 Magnus Woldrich.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the Perl Artistic License for more details.
This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the Perl Artistic License as published by the Perl Foundation, either version 1.0 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
You should have received a copy of the Perl Artistic License along with this program. If not, see http://www.perlfoundation.org/artistic_license_1_0.