Re: Dircolors empty output

"Mark Holt" <[email protected]> wrote:
> I have just discovered dircolors, and thought I would try it, however, I
> have tried it on a number of machines and with a number of files,
> including the default, and I always get
> LS_COLORS='';
> export LS_COLORS
>
> This is not the behavior I want.  Is this a bug, or is there some flag I
> need to supply to tell dircolors to actually work?

What it outputs depends on your TERM environment variable.
If your $TERM value is not in the list of `TERM' entries
in `dircolors -p' output, then you should expect LS_COLORS to be empty.