On 23/10/2026 05:35, Collin Funk wrote:
Looking at various distributions shell files in /etc and GitHub code
search, I couldn't actually find anyone doing this.
I find it mildly interesting that some distributions use ~/.dircolors
and others use ~/.dir_colors, though.
-- 8< --
* doc/coreutils.texi (dircolors invocation): Use an absolute path when
checking whether a user's .dircolors file exists in $HOME and when
loading it. Don't define a variable.
Discovered by Anthropic's OSS Scanner, as bug ANT-2026-HB2T3LWR.
---
doc/coreutils.texi | 3 +--
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/doc/coreutils.texi b/doc/coreutils.texi
index a916b9cf3..cb1f9ee6c 100644
--- a/doc/coreutils.texi
+++ b/doc/coreutils.texi
@@ -8621,8 +8621,7 @@ @node dircolors invocation
adapt them to your favorite shell):
@example
-d=.dircolors
-test -r $d && eval "$(dircolors $d)"
+test -r ~/.dircolors && eval "$(dircolors ~/.dircolors)"
@end example
@vindex LS_COLORS
Both patches look good to me.
cheers,
Padraig
