trapd00r/LS_COLORS resource

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What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

A community-maintained collection of extension-to-color mappings for the LS_COLORS environment variable, covering roughly 300 file types with 256-color terminal support. It ships as sourceable shell scripts for Bourne, C, and fish shells, plus an install script and an AUR package.

Use cases

• colorize ls output by file extension
• make my terminal file listing easier to read
• set up LS_COLORS with 256 colors in bash or zsh
• get consistent file type colors across shells
• find a good dircolors preset for my shell

When to choose

• you want richer, more granular file-type colors than the default dircolors provides
• you use a 256-color capable terminal and GNU coreutils ls
• you want a maintained, community-contributed color scheme you can extend via pull requests

When to avoid

• your terminal only supports 8 or 16 colors
• you use a non-GNU ls without dircolors support
• you need a GUI file manager theme rather than shell listing colors

Facets

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developer-tools terminal-ui configuration-management developer-tools bsd cli ls-colors dircolors shell-theming bash zsh fish terminal-colors file-extensions command-line linux macos

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