eza/man/eza_colors-explanation.5.md

Eza Color Explanation

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 entry at the beginning of EXA_COLORS. So setting EXA_COLORS="reset:*.txt=31" will highlight only text files; setting EXA_COLORS="reset" will highlight nothing.

Examples

• Disable the "current user" highlighting: EXA_COLORS="uu=0:gu=0"
• Turn the date column green: EXA_COLORS="da=32"
• Highlight Vagrantfiles: EXA_COLORS="Vagrantfile=1;4;33"
• Override the existing zip colour: EXA_COLORS="*.zip=38;5;125"
• Markdown files a shade of green, log files a shade of grey: EXA_COLORS="*.md=38;5;121:*.log=38;5;248"

BUILT-IN EXTENSIONS

"Immediate" files are the files you should look at when downloading and building a project for the first time: READMEs, Makefiles, Cargo.toml, and others. They are highlighted in yellow and underlined.

• Images (png, jpeg, gif) are purple.
• Videos (mp4, ogv, m2ts) are a slightly purpler purple.
• Music (mp3, m4a, ogg) is a deeper purple.
• Lossless music (flac, alac, wav) is deeper than that purple. In general, most media files are some shade of purple.
• Cryptographic files (asc, enc, p12) are a faint blue.
• Documents (pdf, doc, dvi) are a less faint blue.
• Compressed files (zip, tgz, Z) are red.
• Temporary files (tmp, swp, ~) are grey.
• Compiled files (class, o, pyc) are faint orange. A file is also counted as compiled if it uses a common extension and is in the same directory as one of its source files: styles.css will count as compiled when next to styles.less or styles.sass, and scripts.js when next to scripts.ts or scripts.coffee.

See also

• eza.1.md
• eza_colors.5.md