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    The default colors often seem to indicate the original author hates us and our eyes though... Commented Oct 10, 2013 at 20:00
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    Thanks. WHy do you sometimes write ~/.dirname, and sometimes ~/dircolors, and sometimes ~/.dircolors? are they supposed to be the same? Commented Mar 26, 2015 at 15:42
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    Thanks. Why eval "$(dircolors ~/dircolors)"; instead of more direct way such as dircolors ~/dircolors? Commented Oct 22, 2015 at 15:27
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    @Tim because dircolors only prints the settings, you need to eval it in order for them to be read. Commented Oct 22, 2015 at 15:58
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    @Tim dircolors ~/.dircolors will just read the .dircolors file and format it as a variable. The output is simply something like LS_COLORS='foo=bar:baz=gaz'. A variable and the value it is set to. In order for that to take effect, you need to actually set LS_COLORS to that value and that is what eval does. Commented Oct 22, 2015 at 23:05