withakay/dircolors.sh

## dircolors.sh
#!/usr/bin/env bash
# A 'theme' generator for dircolors, tested on macOS Sequoia 15.1 and bash 5, should work elsewhere by YMMV
# On macOS you will need gdirecolors and a modern bash, installed via brew
#
#   brew install coreutils
#   brew install bash
#
# Adjust the colors below and run ./dircolors.sh > ~/.dircolors to create a dircolors 'theme'
# in your .zshrc (probably .bashrc too) you can eval this file (also export CLICOLOR=1)
#
#   export CLICOLOR=1
#   eval $(gdircolors ~/.dircolors)
#
# I also aliased ls to gls (from coreutils):
#
#   alias ls="gls -G --color=auto"
#   alias ll="gls -laG --color=auto"
#
# Color definitions for different file type groups optimized for dark backgrounds
# Format: 00;38;5;COLOR_NUMBER where COLOR_NUMBER is 0-255
#
# There is a list of all the xterm-256 colors here:
# https://www.ditig.com/publications/256-colors-cheat-sheet

# Core system colors
DIR_COLOR="75"             # Bright blue for directories
LINK_COLOR="120"          # Bright green for symlinks
SPECIAL_FILE_COLOR="214"  # Bright orange for special files
EXEC_COLOR="84"           # Light green for executables

# Development and content colors
CODE_COLOR="213"          # Bright magenta for source code
BUILD_COLOR="180"         # Light brown for build files
CONFIG_COLOR="147"        # Light purple for config files
DOC_COLOR="153"          # Cyan-ish for documentation
TEST_COLOR="217"         # Light pink for test files
DATA_COLOR="195"         # Light blue for data files
WEB_COLOR="219"          # Pink-ish for web files

# Media colors
ARCHIVE_COLOR="143"       # Olive for archives
IMAGE_COLOR="157"         # Light sea green for images
AUDIO_COLOR="183"        # Light purple for audio
VIDEO_COLOR="156"        # Another sea green variant for video

# System files
TEMP_COLOR="242"         # Dark gray for temporary files
LOG_COLOR="245"          # Light gray for logs
CACHE_COLOR="240"        # Darker gray for cache

# Start generating the dircolors file
cat << EOF
# Generated dircolors configuration
# Optimized for dark terminal backgrounds

# Term Section
TERM Eterm
TERM alacritty
TERM ansi
TERM color-xterm
TERM console
TERM cygwin
TERM gnome
TERM gnome-256color
TERM konsole
TERM linux
TERM putty
TERM rxvt
TERM screen
TERM screen-256color
TERM tmux-256color
TERM xterm
TERM xterm-256color

# Core file types
NORMAL 00
FILE 00
RESET 0
DIR 00;38;5;${DIR_COLOR}
LINK 00;38;5;${LINK_COLOR}
MULTIHARDLINK 00
FIFO 48;5;230;38;5;${SPECIAL_FILE_COLOR};01
SOCK 48;5;230;38;5;${SPECIAL_FILE_COLOR};01
DOOR 48;5;230;38;5;${SPECIAL_FILE_COLOR};01
BLK 48;5;230;38;5;244;01
CHR 48;5;230;38;5;244;01
ORPHAN 48;5;235;38;5;160
SETUID 48;5;160;38;5;230
SETGID 48;5;136;38;5;230
CAPABILITY 30;41
STICKY_OTHER_WRITABLE 48;5;64;38;5;230
OTHER_WRITABLE 48;5;235;38;5;33
STICKY 48;5;33;38;5;230
EXEC 00;38;5;${EXEC_COLOR}

# Source code files
EOF

# Programming languages
code_files=(
    # Systems programming
    "c" "h" "cpp" "hpp" "cc" "cxx" "rs" "go" "zig" "nim" "d"
    # Web development
    "js" "mjs" "cjs" "ts" "jsx" "tsx" "vue" "svelte"
    # Scripting languages
    "py" "rb" "php" "lua" "tcl" "pl" "pm" "t" "sh" "bash" "zsh" "fish"
    # JVM languages
    "java" "scala" "kt" "groovy" "clj" "gradle"
    # .NET languages
    "cs" "fs" "vb"
    # Systems configuration
    "nix" "dhall"
)
for ext in "${code_files[@]}"; do
    echo ".${ext} 00;38;5;${CODE_COLOR}"
done

# Build and compilation files
echo -e "\n# Build and compilation files"
build_files=(
    "Makefile" "makefile" "Rakefile" "Dockerfile" "dockerfile"
    "CMakeLists.txt" "package.json" "composer.json" "Cargo.toml" "Cargo.lock"
    "pom.xml" "build.gradle" "build.sbt" "WORKSPACE" ".bazelrc"
)
for file in "${build_files[@]}"; do
    echo ".${file} 00;38;5;${BUILD_COLOR}"
done

# Configuration files
echo -e "\n# Configuration files"
config_files=(
    # General config
    "conf" "config" "cfg" "ini" "properties"
    # YAML and friends
    "yml" "yaml" "toml" "json" "jsonc" "json5" "jsonnet"
    # Environment and runtime
    "env" "envrc" "direnv" "pythonversion"
    # Git
    "gitignore" "gitattributes" "gitmodules" "gitkeep"
    # Editor and IDE
    "editorconfig" "sublime-project" "sublime-workspace"
    "code-workspace" "iml"
    # Linters and formatters
    "eslintrc" "prettierrc" "stylelintrc" "lint"
    # Shell
    "profile" "bashrc" "zshrc" "zshenv" "zprofile" "bash_profile"
)
for file in "${config_files[@]}"; do
    echo ".${file} 00;38;5;${CONFIG_COLOR}"
done

# Documentation files
echo -e "\n# Documentation files"
doc_files=(
    # Markdown and text
    "md" "mkd" "markdown" "txt" "text" "README" "LICENSE"
    "doc" "docx" "odt" "pdf" "epub" "rtf"
    # Manual pages
    "1" "2" "3" "4" "5" "6" "7" "8" "9" "man" "mdoc"
    # API documentation
    "raml" "swagger" "openapi" "apib"
    # TeX and friends
    "tex" "texi" "latex" "sty" "cls" "bib"
)
for file in "${doc_files[@]}"; do
    echo ".${file} 00;38;5;${DOC_COLOR}"
done

# Test files
echo -e "\n# Test files"
test_files=(
    "spec" "test" "t"
)
for file in "${test_files[@]}"; do
    echo ".${file} 00;38;5;${TEST_COLOR}"
done

# Data files
echo -e "\n# Data files"
data_files=(
    # Structured data
    "csv" "tsv" "psv" "xml" "xsl" "xslt" "xsd"
    "rdf" "owl" "ttl" "n3" "nt" "jsonld"
    # Database
    "sql" "sqlite" "db" "mdb" "pdb"
    # Excel and spreadsheets
    "xls" "xlsx" "ods"
)
for file in "${data_files[@]}"; do
    echo ".${file} 00;38;5;${DATA_COLOR}"
done

# Web files
echo -e "\n# Web files"
web_files=(
    # Markup and styling
    "html" "htm" "xhtml" "css" "sass" "scss" "less" "styl"
    # Templates
    "ejs" "hbs" "mustache" "twig" "liquid" "erb" "haml" "slim"
    "jade" "pug" "jinja" "jinja2"
    # Web assets
    "woff" "woff2" "ttf" "eot" "otf"
)
for file in "${web_files[@]}"; do
    echo ".${file} 00;38;5;${WEB_COLOR}"
done

# Archives and compressed files
echo -e "\n# Archives"
archive_types=(
    # Common archives
    "tar" "tgz" "arj" "taz" "lzh" "lzma" "tlz" "txz" "zip" "z" "Z" "dz"
    "gz" "lz" "xz" "bz2" "bz" "tbz" "tbz2" "tz" "deb" "rpm" "jar" "war"
    "ear" "sar" "rar" "alz" "ace" "zoo" "cpio" "7z" "rz" "cab" "wim"
    # Disk images
    "iso" "img" "dmg" "vhd" "vhdx" "vmdk"
    # Package manager archives
    "apk" "gem" "egg" "whl" "pkg" "msi"
)
for ext in "${archive_types[@]}"; do
    echo ".${ext} 00;38;5;${ARCHIVE_COLOR}"
done

# Image files
echo -e "\n# Image formats"
image_types=(
    # Common formats
    "jpg" "jpeg" "gif" "bmp" "png" "webp" "avif" "heic"
    # Vector and design
    "svg" "svgz" "eps" "ai" "psd" "psb" "xcf" "sketch" "fig"
    # Raw formats
    "raw" "cr2" "nef" "nrw" "arw" "orf" "rw2" "dng"
    # Other
    "tga" "tiff" "ico" "icns" "bpg" "mng" "pcx" "xpm" "ppm" "pbm" "pgm"
)
for ext in "${image_types[@]}"; do
    echo ".${ext} 00;38;5;${IMAGE_COLOR}"
    echo ".${ext^^} 00;38;5;${IMAGE_COLOR}"  # Add uppercase variants
done

# Audio formats
echo -e "\n# Audio formats"
audio_types=(
    # Common formats
    "mp3" "m4a" "aac" "ogg" "oga" "flac" "wav" "wma" "aiff" "opus"
    # Tracker and MIDI
    "mod" "it" "s3m" "xm" "mid" "midi"
    # Playlist formats
    "m3u" "m3u8" "pls" "cue"
    # Other
    "au" "ra" "rm" "mka" "wv" "ape" "spx" "sid"
)
for ext in "${audio_types[@]}"; do
    echo ".${ext} 00;38;5;${AUDIO_COLOR}"
done

# Video formats
echo -e "\n# Video formats"
video_types=(
    # Common formats
    "mp4" "m4v" "mkv" "webm" "mov" "avi" "wmv" "mpg" "mpeg" "m2v"
    "flv" "vob" "ogv" "gifv" "rmvb" "m2ts" "mts" "ts" "3gp"
    # Professional formats
    "mxf" "r3d" "braw" "prproj" "aep"
)
for ext in "${video_types[@]}"; do
    echo ".${ext} 00;38;5;${VIDEO_COLOR}"
    echo ".${ext^^} 00;38;5;${VIDEO_COLOR}"  # Add uppercase variants
done

# Temporary and unimportant files
echo -e "\n# Temporary files"
temp_files=(
    # Temporary and backup
    "tmp" "temp" "bak" "old" "orig" "swp" "swo"
    "save"
    # Build artifacts
    "o" "lo" "mo" "pyc" "class" "dll" "so" "dylib"
    "exe" "out" "app" "beam" "hi"
)
for file in "${temp_files[@]}"; do
    echo ".${file} 00;38;5;${TEMP_COLOR}"
done

# Log files
echo -e "\n# Log files"
log_files=(
    "log" "logs" "err" "error" "debug"
    # LaTeX auxiliary files
    "aux" "lof" "lot" "fls" "out" "toc" "fmt" "fot" "cb"
    "cb2" "lb" "bbl" "bcf" "blg"
)
for file in "${log_files[@]}"; do
    echo ".${file} 00;38;5;${LOG_COLOR}"
done

# Cache files
echo -e "\n# Cache files"
cache_files=(
    "cache" "zwc"
)
for file in "${cache_files[@]}"; do
    echo ".${file} 00;38;5;${CACHE_COLOR}"
done
	#!/usr/bin/env bash
	# A 'theme' generator for dircolors, tested on macOS Sequoia 15.1 and bash 5, should work elsewhere by YMMV
	# On macOS you will need gdirecolors and a modern bash, installed via brew
	#
	# brew install coreutils
	# brew install bash
	#
	# Adjust the colors below and run ./dircolors.sh > ~/.dircolors to create a dircolors 'theme'
	# in your .zshrc (probably .bashrc too) you can eval this file (also export CLICOLOR=1)
	#
	# export CLICOLOR=1
	# eval $(gdircolors ~/.dircolors)
	#
	# I also aliased ls to gls (from coreutils):
	#
	# alias ls="gls -G --color=auto"
	# alias ll="gls -laG --color=auto"
	#
	# Color definitions for different file type groups optimized for dark backgrounds
	# Format: 00;38;5;COLOR_NUMBER where COLOR_NUMBER is 0-255
	#
	# There is a list of all the xterm-256 colors here:
	# https://www.ditig.com/publications/256-colors-cheat-sheet

	# Core system colors
	DIR_COLOR="75" # Bright blue for directories
	LINK_COLOR="120" # Bright green for symlinks
	SPECIAL_FILE_COLOR="214" # Bright orange for special files
	EXEC_COLOR="84" # Light green for executables

	# Development and content colors
	CODE_COLOR="213" # Bright magenta for source code
	BUILD_COLOR="180" # Light brown for build files
	CONFIG_COLOR="147" # Light purple for config files
	DOC_COLOR="153" # Cyan-ish for documentation
	TEST_COLOR="217" # Light pink for test files
	DATA_COLOR="195" # Light blue for data files
	WEB_COLOR="219" # Pink-ish for web files

	# Media colors
	ARCHIVE_COLOR="143" # Olive for archives
	IMAGE_COLOR="157" # Light sea green for images
	AUDIO_COLOR="183" # Light purple for audio
	VIDEO_COLOR="156" # Another sea green variant for video

	# System files
	TEMP_COLOR="242" # Dark gray for temporary files
	LOG_COLOR="245" # Light gray for logs
	CACHE_COLOR="240" # Darker gray for cache

	# Start generating the dircolors file
	cat << EOF
	# Generated dircolors configuration
	# Optimized for dark terminal backgrounds

	# Term Section
	TERM Eterm
	TERM alacritty
	TERM ansi
	TERM color-xterm
	TERM console
	TERM cygwin
	TERM gnome
	TERM gnome-256color
	TERM konsole
	TERM linux
	TERM putty
	TERM rxvt
	TERM screen
	TERM screen-256color
	TERM tmux-256color
	TERM xterm
	TERM xterm-256color

	# Core file types
	NORMAL 00
	FILE 00
	RESET 0
	DIR 00;38;5;${DIR_COLOR}
	LINK 00;38;5;${LINK_COLOR}
	MULTIHARDLINK 00
	FIFO 48;5;230;38;5;${SPECIAL_FILE_COLOR};01
	SOCK 48;5;230;38;5;${SPECIAL_FILE_COLOR};01
	DOOR 48;5;230;38;5;${SPECIAL_FILE_COLOR};01
	BLK 48;5;230;38;5;244;01
	CHR 48;5;230;38;5;244;01
	ORPHAN 48;5;235;38;5;160
	SETUID 48;5;160;38;5;230
	SETGID 48;5;136;38;5;230
	CAPABILITY 30;41
	STICKY_OTHER_WRITABLE 48;5;64;38;5;230
	OTHER_WRITABLE 48;5;235;38;5;33
	STICKY 48;5;33;38;5;230
	EXEC 00;38;5;${EXEC_COLOR}

	# Source code files
	EOF

	# Programming languages
	code_files=(
	# Systems programming
	"c" "h" "cpp" "hpp" "cc" "cxx" "rs" "go" "zig" "nim" "d"
	# Web development
	"js" "mjs" "cjs" "ts" "jsx" "tsx" "vue" "svelte"
	# Scripting languages
	"py" "rb" "php" "lua" "tcl" "pl" "pm" "t" "sh" "bash" "zsh" "fish"
	# JVM languages
	"java" "scala" "kt" "groovy" "clj" "gradle"
	# .NET languages
	"cs" "fs" "vb"
	# Systems configuration
	"nix" "dhall"
	)
	for ext in "${code_files[@]}"; do
	echo ".${ext} 00;38;5;${CODE_COLOR}"
	done

	# Build and compilation files
	echo -e "\n# Build and compilation files"
	build_files=(
	"Makefile" "makefile" "Rakefile" "Dockerfile" "dockerfile"
	"CMakeLists.txt" "package.json" "composer.json" "Cargo.toml" "Cargo.lock"
	"pom.xml" "build.gradle" "build.sbt" "WORKSPACE" ".bazelrc"
	)
	for file in "${build_files[@]}"; do
	echo ".${file} 00;38;5;${BUILD_COLOR}"
	done

	# Configuration files
	echo -e "\n# Configuration files"
	config_files=(
	# General config
	"conf" "config" "cfg" "ini" "properties"
	# YAML and friends
	"yml" "yaml" "toml" "json" "jsonc" "json5" "jsonnet"
	# Environment and runtime
	"env" "envrc" "direnv" "pythonversion"
	# Git
	"gitignore" "gitattributes" "gitmodules" "gitkeep"
	# Editor and IDE
	"editorconfig" "sublime-project" "sublime-workspace"
	"code-workspace" "iml"
	# Linters and formatters
	"eslintrc" "prettierrc" "stylelintrc" "lint"
	# Shell
	"profile" "bashrc" "zshrc" "zshenv" "zprofile" "bash_profile"
	)
	for file in "${config_files[@]}"; do
	echo ".${file} 00;38;5;${CONFIG_COLOR}"
	done

	# Documentation files
	echo -e "\n# Documentation files"
	doc_files=(
	# Markdown and text
	"md" "mkd" "markdown" "txt" "text" "README" "LICENSE"
	"doc" "docx" "odt" "pdf" "epub" "rtf"
	# Manual pages
	"1" "2" "3" "4" "5" "6" "7" "8" "9" "man" "mdoc"
	# API documentation
	"raml" "swagger" "openapi" "apib"
	# TeX and friends
	"tex" "texi" "latex" "sty" "cls" "bib"
	)
	for file in "${doc_files[@]}"; do
	echo ".${file} 00;38;5;${DOC_COLOR}"
	done

	# Test files
	echo -e "\n# Test files"
	test_files=(
	"spec" "test" "t"
	)
	for file in "${test_files[@]}"; do
	echo ".${file} 00;38;5;${TEST_COLOR}"
	done

	# Data files
	echo -e "\n# Data files"
	data_files=(
	# Structured data
	"csv" "tsv" "psv" "xml" "xsl" "xslt" "xsd"
	"rdf" "owl" "ttl" "n3" "nt" "jsonld"
	# Database
	"sql" "sqlite" "db" "mdb" "pdb"
	# Excel and spreadsheets
	"xls" "xlsx" "ods"
	)
	for file in "${data_files[@]}"; do
	echo ".${file} 00;38;5;${DATA_COLOR}"
	done

	# Web files
	echo -e "\n# Web files"
	web_files=(
	# Markup and styling
	"html" "htm" "xhtml" "css" "sass" "scss" "less" "styl"
	# Templates
	"ejs" "hbs" "mustache" "twig" "liquid" "erb" "haml" "slim"
	"jade" "pug" "jinja" "jinja2"
	# Web assets
	"woff" "woff2" "ttf" "eot" "otf"
	)
	for file in "${web_files[@]}"; do
	echo ".${file} 00;38;5;${WEB_COLOR}"
	done

	# Archives and compressed files
	echo -e "\n# Archives"
	archive_types=(
	# Common archives
	"tar" "tgz" "arj" "taz" "lzh" "lzma" "tlz" "txz" "zip" "z" "Z" "dz"
	"gz" "lz" "xz" "bz2" "bz" "tbz" "tbz2" "tz" "deb" "rpm" "jar" "war"
	"ear" "sar" "rar" "alz" "ace" "zoo" "cpio" "7z" "rz" "cab" "wim"
	# Disk images
	"iso" "img" "dmg" "vhd" "vhdx" "vmdk"
	# Package manager archives
	"apk" "gem" "egg" "whl" "pkg" "msi"
	)
	for ext in "${archive_types[@]}"; do
	echo ".${ext} 00;38;5;${ARCHIVE_COLOR}"
	done

	# Image files
	echo -e "\n# Image formats"
	image_types=(
	# Common formats
	"jpg" "jpeg" "gif" "bmp" "png" "webp" "avif" "heic"
	# Vector and design
	"svg" "svgz" "eps" "ai" "psd" "psb" "xcf" "sketch" "fig"
	# Raw formats
	"raw" "cr2" "nef" "nrw" "arw" "orf" "rw2" "dng"
	# Other
	"tga" "tiff" "ico" "icns" "bpg" "mng" "pcx" "xpm" "ppm" "pbm" "pgm"
	)
	for ext in "${image_types[@]}"; do
	echo ".${ext} 00;38;5;${IMAGE_COLOR}"
	echo ".${ext^^} 00;38;5;${IMAGE_COLOR}" # Add uppercase variants
	done

	# Audio formats
	echo -e "\n# Audio formats"
	audio_types=(
	# Common formats
	"mp3" "m4a" "aac" "ogg" "oga" "flac" "wav" "wma" "aiff" "opus"
	# Tracker and MIDI
	"mod" "it" "s3m" "xm" "mid" "midi"
	# Playlist formats
	"m3u" "m3u8" "pls" "cue"
	# Other
	"au" "ra" "rm" "mka" "wv" "ape" "spx" "sid"
	)
	for ext in "${audio_types[@]}"; do
	echo ".${ext} 00;38;5;${AUDIO_COLOR}"
	done

	# Video formats
	echo -e "\n# Video formats"
	video_types=(
	# Common formats
	"mp4" "m4v" "mkv" "webm" "mov" "avi" "wmv" "mpg" "mpeg" "m2v"
	"flv" "vob" "ogv" "gifv" "rmvb" "m2ts" "mts" "ts" "3gp"
	# Professional formats
	"mxf" "r3d" "braw" "prproj" "aep"
	)
	for ext in "${video_types[@]}"; do
	echo ".${ext} 00;38;5;${VIDEO_COLOR}"
	echo ".${ext^^} 00;38;5;${VIDEO_COLOR}" # Add uppercase variants
	done

	# Temporary and unimportant files
	echo -e "\n# Temporary files"
	temp_files=(
	# Temporary and backup
	"tmp" "temp" "bak" "old" "orig" "swp" "swo"
	"save"
	# Build artifacts
	"o" "lo" "mo" "pyc" "class" "dll" "so" "dylib"
	"exe" "out" "app" "beam" "hi"
	)
	for file in "${temp_files[@]}"; do
	echo ".${file} 00;38;5;${TEMP_COLOR}"
	done

	# Log files
	echo -e "\n# Log files"
	log_files=(
	"log" "logs" "err" "error" "debug"
	# LaTeX auxiliary files
	"aux" "lof" "lot" "fls" "out" "toc" "fmt" "fot" "cb"
	"cb2" "lb" "bbl" "bcf" "blg"
	)
	for file in "${log_files[@]}"; do
	echo ".${file} 00;38;5;${LOG_COLOR}"
	done

	# Cache files
	echo -e "\n# Cache files"
	cache_files=(
	"cache" "zwc"
	)
	for file in "${cache_files[@]}"; do
	echo ".${file} 00;38;5;${CACHE_COLOR}"
	done