Re: Request for help getting coreutils dircolors to work with the ls command

[Dragan Simic]

On 2023-09-09 17:52, Stephen Ferris wrote:
> I am on macOS Ventura. The shell I’m using is zsh. I have the
> .dircolors database in my home folder (~/.dircolors). I downloaded
> coreutils using Homebrew. I am also using oh-my-zsh with the aliases
> plugin, which includes aliases for the ls command.
>
> I have, I think, carefully read Section "10.4 dircolors: Color setup
> for ls” in the online coreutils documentation and attempted to follow
> the directions there to get LS_COLORS to work in my environment, but
> without success. These are the lines I have in my ~/zprofile file. I
> have not placed them in my .zshrc file.
>
> export PATH="/opt/homebrew/opt/coreutils/libexec/gnubin:${PATH}"
> export MANPATH="/opt/homebrew/opt/coreutils/libexec/gnuman:${MANPATH}"
> export CLICOLOR=1
> export CLICOLOR_FORCED
> ls --color=always
> eval "$(dircolors --bourne-shell ~/.dircolors)"
> d=.dircolors
> test -r $d && eval "$(dircolors $d)”
>
> I have tried most of the options in the eval command, but none of them
> seems to work for me.
>
> I would greatly appreciate if you could spot anything I am doing
> incorrectly or advise me other things I should be doing. Thank you.

Hmm, that's a bit strange issue.  I have "alias ls='ls -laFvh 
--color=auto'" in my ~/.bashrc on Linux, and I have $LS_COLORS defined 
directly in my ~/.bashrc as well, instead of using ~/.dircolors 
separately, just because I wanted to have everything in a single file, 
plus I have some customizations applied to the $LS_COLORS contents.

Perhaps you could also try a similar setup, just to see would it work as 
expected in your environment.