LSCOLORS for MacOS ls

[logic]

I wasn't quite sure where to post this, so figured an issue off of your repository might be the most likely to be found by others. :) I took a bit of time today and roughly mirrored the base colors that your solarized theme for dircolors gives in OSX's LSCOLORS environment variable:

export LSCOLORS=gxfxbEaEBxxEhEhBaDaCaD

It's not nearly as comprehensive (you can't do file-type matching, for example), but it should be close, for those who don't want to replace ls with the GNU version.

[seebi]

hi logic, can you provide a screenshot here so that people can see how it looks like. I can link this issue from the README ...

[logic]

Sure, no problem. Here are the default colors:

http://k.min.us/jX7u2.png

And here they are in a Solarized-esque version:

http://k.min.us/jT8h4.png

(Gallery link.)

[seebi]

Thanks, I've added a note to this issue ...

[teoljungberg]

There is also another way.
You can install coreutils from homebrew and use that without replacing the OS X tools. Since they are installed with 'g' as the prefix
in your .bashrc, .profile or .bash_profile add this line
"
# Load GNU aliases
source /usr/local/Cellar/coreutils/8.12/aliases
"
and alias ls to GNUs alias
"
alias ls='gls --color=auto'
"
and of course add the aliases to coreutils before the ls alias
"
# Load GNU aliases
source /usr/local/Cellar/coreutils/8.12/aliases
"

[PhilHudson]

coreutils can also be installed from the fink and MacPorts repositories (older alternatives to homebrew). Choose one and stick with it; don't mix them!

[zevaverbach]

@teoljungberg is "aliases" meant to be a directory or file (8.23_1 has no such file/directory)? what should be done after adding these lines to .bashrc/.bash_profile to make this work?

[teoljungberg]

@zevav It was when I wrote up that guideline, but after looking into it now I can see that it's not a directory. If you use homebrew as I used, and if you have /usr/local/bin in your path you have all of these in your PATH already. You can just alias ls to gls

[lukebp]

If you install GNU coreutils with homebrew, the eval `dircolors /path/to/dircolorsdb` command from the documentation will need to be changed to eval `gdircolors /path/to/dircolorsdb` .

[antoineco]

I'd like to share my LSCOLORS which seems slightly closer to dircolors.ansi-dark, for those of you who use the actual Solarized palette in your terminal.

LSCOLORS=exfxfeaeBxxehehbadacea

Because the original screenshots disappeared I made some myself:

Comparison

With the OP's value:

With the value I shared:
(note the color of regular directories, directory777, and absence of boldness for non-executables)

On Linux with dircolors.ansi-dark: