dircolors-hd

A manager for LS_COLORS expressions. In contrast to dircolors, it uses a YAML-based configuration file for the filetype-database and the color themes. Colors can be specified in #RRGGBB format instead of cryptic ANSI codes.

Usage:

export LS_COLORS="$(dircolors-hd generate filetypes.yml --theme themes/molokai.yml)"

True color

By default, dircolors-hd runs in true color mode (24-bit). If you don't use a terminal that supports 24-bit colors, use the --color-mode 8-bit option when running dircolors-hd.

Installation

On Debian-based systems

wget "https://github.com/sharkdp/dircolors-hd/releases/download/v0.2.0/dircolors-hd_0.2.0_amd64.deb"
sudo dpkg -i dircolors-hd_0.2.0_amd64.deb

On other distrubutions

Check out the release page for binary builds.

Via cargo

If you have Rust 1.30 or higher, you can install dircolors-hd from source via cargo:

cargo install dircolors-hd

License

Licensed under either of

• Apache License, Version 2.0, (LICENSE-APACHE or http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0)
• MIT license (LICENSE-MIT or http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT)

at your option.

Similar and related projects

• https://github.com/karlding/dirchromatic
• https://github.com/trapd00r/LS_COLORS
• https://geoff.greer.fm/lscolors/
• LS_COLORS themes:
  • https://github.com/seebi/dircolors-solarized
  • https://github.com/ivoarch/dircolors-zenburn
  • https://github.com/arcticicestudio/nord-dircolors