dirchromatic

programatically generate your .dircolors file (for use with LS_COLORS)

The idea behind dirchromatic is that usually, when you're configuring your .dircolors file, you want to assign the same colours to similar file types (images, documents, videos). So instead, we can maintain a list of file extensions, and simply "tag" each type with the appropriate colours. Then, it will generate an appropriate .dircolors file that can be copied (or symlinked) as appropriate.

Getting Started

git clone https://github.com/karlding/dirchromatic.git && cd dirchromatic/
git submodule update --init --recursive
bin/dirchromatic

Then copy the generated .dircolors file to $HOME/.dircolors (or symlink it), and add the following to your ~/.bashrc

if [ -r "$HOME/.dircolors" ]; then
    eval `dircolors $HOME/.dircolors`
fi

Usage

bin/dirchromatic [--types=types.yaml] [--template=template.tmpl] [--output=.dircolors]

Example

There's a few files included already in the repository, which you can look through and play around with.

In addition, here's a simplified example

types.yaml

The types.yaml file lets you register types, and their associated colours.

- colour: 01;31
  description: Archive files
  src: types/archive.yaml
- colour: 01;36 
  src: types/audio.yaml
- colour: 00;35
  src: types/image.yaml

All paths here are specified relative to where the types.yaml file is located.

Note: The description is optional. The src and colour parameters are not.

types/archive.yaml

Each registered type has its own YAML file, which is simply a list of file extensions to apply the type to.

---
- 7zip
- rar
- zip

types/audio.yaml

---
- mp3
- m4a
- oog

types/image.yaml

---
- gif
- jpg
- png
- svg