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TERMINAL_COLORS.D(5)           terminal-colors.d          TERMINAL_COLORS.D(5)

NAME
       terminal-colors.d - Configure output colorization for various utilities

SYNOPSIS
       /etc/terminal-colors.d/[[name][@term].][type]

DESCRIPTION
       Files  in  this  directory determine the default behavior for utilities
       when coloring output.

       The name is a utility name.  The name is  optional  and  when  none  is
       specified then the file is used for all unspecified utilities.

       The term is a terminal identifier (the TERM environment variable).  The
       terminal identifier is optional and when none  is  specified  then  the
       file is used for all unspecified terminals.

       The type is a file type.  Supported file types are:

       disable
              Turns off output colorization for all compatible utilities.

       enable Turns on output colorization; any matching disable files are ig-
              nored.

       scheme Specifies colors used for output.  The file format may  be  spe-
              cific to the utility, the default format is described below.

       If  there  are  more files that match for a utility, then the file with
       the  more  specific  filename  wins.    For   example,   the   filename
       "@xterm.scheme"  has less priority than "dmesg@xterm.scheme".  The low-
       est priority are those files without a utility name and terminal  iden-
       tifier (e.g. "disable").

       The  user-specific  $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/terminal-colors.d  or  $HOME/.con-
       fig/terminal-colors.d overrides the global setting.

EXAMPLES
       Disable colors for all compatible utilities:
              touch /etc/terminal-colors.d/disable

       Disable colors for all compatible utils on a vt100 terminal:
              touch /etc/terminal-colors.d/@vt100.disable

       Disable colors for all compatible utils except dmesg(1):
              touch /etc/terminal-colors.d/disable

              touch /etc/terminal-colors.d/dmesg.enable

DEFAULT SCHEME FILES FORMAT
       The following statement is recognized:

              name color-sequence

       The name is a logical name of color  sequence  (for  example  "error").
       The  names  are specific to the utilities.  For more details always see
       the COLORS section in the man page for the utility.

       The color-sequence is a color name, ASCII color sequences or escape se-
       quences.

   Color names
       black,  blink,  blue,  bold,  brown, cyan, darkgray, gray, green, half-
       bright,  lightblue,  lightcyan,  lightgray,  lightgreen,  lightmagenta,
       lightred, magenta, red, reset, reverse, and yellow.

   ANSI color sequences
       The  color  sequences are composed of sequences of numbers separated by
       semicolons.  The most common codes are:

               0   to restore default color
               1   for brighter colors
               4   for underlined text
               5   for flashing text
              30   for black foreground
              31   for red foreground
              32   for green foreground
              33   for yellow (or brown) foreground
              34   for blue foreground
              35   for purple foreground
              36   for cyan foreground
              37   for white (or gray) foreground
              40   for black background
              41   for red background
              42   for green background
              43   for yellow (or brown) background
              44   for blue background
              45   for purple background
              46   for cyan background
              47   for white (or gray) background

   Escape sequences
       To specify control or blank characters in the color sequences,  C-style
       \-escaped notation can be used:

              \a   Bell (ASCII 7)
              \b   Backspace (ASCII 8)
              \e   Escape (ASCII 27)
              \f   Form feed (ASCII 12)
              \n   Newline (ASCII 10)
              \r   Carriage Return (ASCII 13)
              \t   Tab (ASCII 9)
              \v   Vertical Tab (ASCII 11)
              \?   Delete (ASCII 127)
              \_   Space
              \\   Backslash (\)
              \^   Caret (^)
              \#   Hash mark (#)

       Please  note  that  escapes  are necessary to enter a space, backslash,
       caret, or any control character anywhere in the string, as  well  as  a
       hash mark as the first character.

       For  example,  to use a red background for alert messages in the output
       of dmesg(1), use:

              echo 'alert 37;41' >> /etc/terminal-colors.d/dmesg.scheme

   Comments
       Lines where the first non-blank character is a #  (hash)  are  ignored.
       Any other use of the hash character is not interpreted as introducing a
       comment.

FILES
       $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/terminal-colors.d
       $HOME/.config/terminal-colors.d
       /etc/terminal-colors.d

ENVIRONMENT
       TERMINAL_COLORS_DEBUG=all
              enables debug output.

COMPATIBILITY
       The terminal-colors.d functionality is currently supported by all util-
       linux  utilities which provides colorized output.  For more details al-
       ways see the COLORS section in the man page for the utility.

AVAILABILITY
       terminal-colors.d is part of the util-linux package  and  is  available
       from Linux Kernel Archive <https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-
       linux/>.

util-linux                       January 2014             TERMINAL_COLORS.D(5)
NAME | SYNOPSIS | DESCRIPTION | EXAMPLES | DEFAULT SCHEME FILES FORMAT | FILES | ENVIRONMENT | COMPATIBILITY | AVAILABILITY