DirColors

DirColors leverages Powershell’s custom formatter support to provide an implementation of GNU coreutils’ ls --color=always anywhere FileInfo/DirectoryInfo objects are left to self-format.

DirColors adds support for:

• Parsing dircolors-formatted files
• Colorizing filenames in default, table, wide and list-formatted renditions of file information.
• Displaying the targets of symbolic links and directory junction points
• Parsing LS_COLORS from your environment
• Storing a dircolors-compatible LS_COLORS in your environment for coreutils

For compatibility with existing utilities, DirColors will automatically read $LS_COLORS from the environment when it is loaded and write back to it when the color scheme is updated.

Usage⌗

Assuming you’ve installed the module somewhere in your module path, just import the module in your profile and load a dircolors file.

Import-Module DirColors

# Load a color scheme
Update-DirColors ~\dir_colors

Screenshots⌗

PowerShell formatters⌗

Coreutils integration⌗