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eza_colors-explanation — more details on customizing eza colors
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.