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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
           ignored.

       scheme
           Specifies colors used for output. The file format may be specific
           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 lowest
       priority are those files without a utility name and terminal identifier
       (e.g., "disable").

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

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
       sequences.

   Color names
       black, blink, blue, bold, brown, cyan, darkgray, gray, green,
       halfbright, 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.

ENVIRONMENT
       TERMINAL_COLORS_DEBUG=all
           enables debug output.

FILES
       $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/terminal-colors.d

       $HOME/.config/terminal-colors.d

       /etc/terminal-colors.d

EXAMPLE
       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

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

REPORTING BUGS
       For bug reports, use the issue tracker at
       https://github.com/util-linux/util-linux/issues.

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

util-linux 2.38.1                 2022-05-11              TERMINAL-COLORS.D(5)

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