eza_colors(5) eza_colors(5)
NAME
eza_colors — customising the file and UI colours of eza
SYNOPSIS
The EZA_COLORS environment variable can be used to customise the colours
that eza uses to highlight file names, file metadata, and parts of the
UI.
You can use the dircolors program to generate a script that sets the
variable from an input file, or if you don’t mind editing long strings
of text, you can just type it out directly. These variables have the
following structure:
• A list of key-value pairs separated by `=', such as `*.txt=32'.
• Multiple ANSI formatting codes are separated by `;', such as
`*.txt=32;1;4'.
• Finally, multiple pairs are separated by `:', such as
`*.txt=32:*.mp3=1;35'.
The key half of the pair can either be a two-letter code or a file glob,
and anything that’s not a valid code will be treated as a glob, includ-
ing keys that happen to be two letters long.
For backwards compatibility EXA_COLORS environment variables is checked
if EZA_COLORS is unset.
EXAMPLES
EZA_COLORS="uu=0:gu=0"
Disable the “current user” highlighting
EZA_COLORS="da=32"
Turn the date column green
EZA_COLORS="Vagrantfile=1;4;33"
Highlight Vagrantfiles
EZA_COLORS="*.zip=38;5;125"
Override the existing zip colour
EZA_COLORS="*.md=38;5;121:*.log=38;5;248"
Markdown files a shade of green, log files a shade of grey
LIST OF CODES
LS_COLORS can use these ten codes:
di directories
ex executable files
fi regular files
pi named pipes
so sockets
bd block devices
cd character devices
ln symlinks
or symlinks with no target
EZA_COLORS can use many more:
oc the permissions displayed as octal
ur the user-read permission bit
uw the user-write permission bit
ux the user-execute permission bit for regular files
ue the user-execute for other file kinds
gr the group-read permission bit
gw the group-write permission bit
gx the group-execute permission bit
tr the others-read permission bit
tw the others-write permission bit
tx the others-execute permission bit
su setuid, setgid, and sticky permission bits for files
sf setuid, setgid, and sticky for other file kinds
xa the extended attribute indicator
sn the numbers of a file’s size (sets nb, nk, nm, ng and nt)
nb the numbers of a file’s size if it is lower than 1 KB/Kib
nk the numbers of a file’s size if it is between 1 KB/KiB and 1
MB/MiB
nm the numbers of a file’s size if it is between 1 MB/MiB and 1
GB/GiB
ng the numbers of a file’s size if it is between 1 GB/GiB and 1
TB/TiB
nt the numbers of a file’s size if it is 1 TB/TiB or higher
sb the units of a file’s size (sets ub, uk, um, ug and ut)
ub the units of a file’s size if it is lower than 1 KB/Kib
uk the units of a file’s size if it is between 1 KB/KiB and 1 MB/MiB
um the units of a file’s size if it is between 1 MB/MiB and 1 GB/GiB
ug the units of a file’s size if it is between 1 GB/GiB and 1 TB/TiB
ut the units of a file’s size if it is 1 TB/TiB or higher
df a device’s major ID
ds a device’s minor ID
uu a user that’s you
uR a user that’s root
un a user that’s someone else
gu a group that you belong to
gR a group related to root
gn a group you aren’t a member of
lc a number of hard links
lm a number of hard links for a regular file with at least two
ga a new flag in Git
gm a modified flag in Git
gd a deleted flag in Git
gv a renamed flag in Git
gt a modified metadata flag in Git
gi an ignored flag in Git
gc a conflicted flag in Git
Gm main branch of repo
Go other branch of repo
Gc clean branch of repo
Gd dirty branch of repo
xx “punctuation”, including many background UI elements
da a file’s date
in a file’s inode number
bl a file’s number of blocks
hd the header row of a table
lp the path of a symlink
cc an escaped character in a filename
bO the overlay style for broken symlink paths
sp special (not file, dir, mount, exec, pipe, socket, block device,
char device, or link)
mp a mount point
im a regular file that is an image
vi a regular file that is a video
mu a regular file that is lossy music
lo a regular file that is lossless music
cr a regular file that is related to cryptography (ex: key or cer-
tificate)
do a regular file that is a document (ex: office suite document or
PDF)
co a regular file that is compressed
tm a regular file that is temporary (ex: a text editor’s backup
file)
cm a regular file that is a compilation artifact (ex: Java class
file)
bu a regular file that is used to build a project (ex: Makefile)
sc a regular file that is source code
ic the icon (this is optional, if not set the icon color matches the
file name’s)
Sn No security context on a file
Su SELinux user
Sr SELinux role
St SELinux type
Sl SELinux level
ff BSD file flags
Values in EXA_COLORS override those given in LS_COLORS, so you don’t
need to re-write an existing LS_COLORS variable with proprietary exten-
sions.
LIST OF STYLES
Unlike some versions of ls, the given ANSI values must be valid colour
codes: eza won’t just print out whichever characters are given.
The codes accepted by eza are:
1 for bold
2 for dimmed
3 for italic
4 for underline
31 for red text
32 for green text
33 for yellow text
34 for blue text
35 for purple text
36 for cyan text
37 for white text
90 for dark gray text
91 for bright red text
92 for bright green text
93 for bright yellow text
94 for bright blue text
95 for bright purple text
96 for bright cyan text
97 for bright text
38;5;nnn
for a colour from 0 to 255 (replace the nnn part)
Many terminals will treat bolded text as a different colour, or at least
provide the option to.
eza provides its own built-in set of file extension mappings that cover
a large range of common file extensions, including documents, archives,
media, and temporary files. Any mappings in the environment variables
will override this default set: running eza with LS_COLORS="*.zip=32"
will turn zip files green but leave the colours of other compressed
files alone.
You can also disable this built-in set entirely by including a reset en-
try at the beginning of EZA_COLORS. So setting EZA_COLORS="re-
set:*.txt=31" will highlight only text files; setting EZA_COLORS="reset"
will highlight nothing.
AUTHOR
eza is maintained by Christina Sørensen and many other contributors.
Source code: https://github.com/eza-community/eza
Contributors: https://github.com/eza-community/eza/graphs/contributors
Our infinite thanks to Benjamin `ogham' Sago and all the other contribu-
tors of exa, from which eza was forked.
SEE ALSO
• eza(1)
• eza_colors-explanation(5)
$version eza_colors(5)
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