From 8ad71c16a44136da885971c4c675b2e72681ace6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: David Peter <sharkdp@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Sun, 14 May 2017 20:18:17 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Update README.md

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 README.md | 11 +++++++++++
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 <a href="https://asciinema.org/a/120318" target="_blank"><img src="https://asciinema.org/a/120318.png" width="600" align="center" /></a>
 
+## Colorized output
+*fd* can colorize files by extension, just like *ls*. In order for
+this to work, you need to set up a `~/.dir_colors` file. The easiest
+way is to call
+```
+dircolors --print-database > ~/.dir_colors
+```
+More complete (and more colorful) alternatives can be found
+[here](https://github.com/seebi/dircolors-solarized) or
+[here](https://github.com/trapd00r/LS_COLORS).
+
 ## Benchmark
 A search in my home folder with ~80.000 subdirectories
 and ~350.000 files. The `--hidden` for `fd` is needed