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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 EZA_COLORS. So setting EZA_COLORS="reset:*.txt=31" will highlight only text files; setting EZA_COLORS="reset" will highlight nothing.

Examples

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

BUILT-IN EXTENSIONS

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eza now supports bright colours! As supported by most modern 256-colour terminals, you can now choose from bright colour codes when selecting your custom colours in your #EZA_COLORS environment variable.
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Build (Makefile, Cargo.toml, package.json) are yellow and underlined.
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Images (png, jpeg, gif) are purple.
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Videos (mp4, ogv, m2ts) are a slightly purpler purple.
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Music (mp3, m4a, ogg) is a deeper purple.
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Lossless music (flac, alac, wav) is deeper than that purple. In general, most media files are some shade of purple.
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Cryptographic files (asc, enc, p12) are a faint blue.
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Documents (pdf, doc, dvi) are a less faint blue.
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Compressed files (zip, tgz, Z) are red.
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Temporary files (tmp, swp, ~) are grey.
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Compiled files (class, o, pyc) are yellow. 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.
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Source files (cpp, js, java) are bright yellow.

See also

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eza.1.md
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eza_colors.5.md
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