error: invalid character '=' in LSCOLORS env var

[samangh]

Trying to use LS_COLORS in OS X (Note, it's LSCOLORS in OS X, not LS_COLORS).

eval $(dircolors -b ~/.LS_COLORS/LS_COLORS)
export LSCOLORS=$LS_COLORS

But, I get:

$ ls
error: invalid character '=' in LSCOLORS env var
warn: LSCOLORS should use characters a-h instead of 0-9 (see the manual page)
error: invalid character '8' in LSCOLORS env var
error: invalid character ';' in LSCOLORS env var
error: invalid character ';' in LSCOLORS env var
error: invalid character '8' in LSCOLORS env var
error: invalid character ':' in LSCOLORS env var
error: invalid character '=' in LSCOLORS env var
error: invalid character '8' in LSCOLORS env var
error: invalid character ';' in LSCOLORS env var
error: invalid character ';' in LSCOLORS env var
error: invalid character ':' in LSCOLORS env var

Any ideas?

[samangh]

Can see result of echo $LS_COLORS in this gist.

[rpdelaney]

Weird. Works for me in OSX using LS_COLORS as normal. What's your $SHELL?

[samangh]

Found the problem, it's with ls. I switched from the OS X ls to the latest version of GNU ls (v8.25), and LS_COLORS now works fine.

I wonder whether there is a difference between how BSD and GNU variants interpret $LS_COLORS, or if the version shipped in OS X is too old.