How can one change dircolors globally?

[Chris Green]

On Mon, Jul 30, 2018 at 09:14:16PM +1000, Francis (Grizzly) Smit wrote:
> 
> 
> On 30/07/18 21:05, Chris Green wrote:
> > I suspect the answer to this may be that you can't, but I'll ask the
> > question anyway.
> >
> > Is there any sensible/easy way to change the defaults for all users
> > set up by dircolors in Ubuntu?  From reading the man pages for
> > dircolors and dir_colors it would seem that it's not possible.
> >
> > On Ubuntu (and any Debian derived system) dircolors doesn't read
> > either of /etc/DIR_COLORS or ~/.dir_colors so one can't change colors
> > by creating/changing these files.  
> >
> > In addition, on Ubuntu at least, the dircolors command is run in each
> > users' ~/.bashrc file so even putting a dircolors command in
> > /etc/profile which changes the defaults won't work because it will be
> > overridden by the users' dircolors.
> >
> > The only way I can see of doing it is to put a customised dircolors
> > command in /usr/local/bin which would then be run instead of the
> > default one at /usr/bin/dircolors.  This does seem a bit of a bodge
> > though.  Isn't there a better way?
> >
> > I see that 18.04 does take account of a user's local ~/.dircolors file
> > but it still doesn't have a global file.  Earlier versions don't even
> > look at ~/.dircolors.
> >
> I'd set LS_COLORS in /etc/bash.bashrc

That won't work because it will be overridden by the setting in each
user's ~/.bashrc.

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Chris Green