# anstyle-ls > Parse LS_COLORS Style Descriptions [![Documentation](https://img.shields.io/badge/docs-master-blue.svg)][Documentation] ![License](https://img.shields.io/crates/l/anstyle-ls.svg) [![Crates Status](https://img.shields.io/crates/v/anstyle-ls.svg)](https://crates.io/crates/anstyle-ls) ## References Information about the `LS_COLORS` environment variable is sparse. Here is a short list of useful references: - [`LS_COLORS` implementation in the GNU coreutils version of `ls`](https://github.com/coreutils/coreutils/blob/17983b2cb3bccbb4fa69691178caddd99269bda9/src/ls.c#L2507-L2647) (the reference implementation) - [`LS_COLORS` implementation in `bfs`](https://github.com/tavianator/bfs/blob/2d3b03183c9f1cdb685977f349bf4bbc74a2038d/color.c#L308) by [**@tavianator**](https://github.com/tavianator) - [The `DIR_COLORS(5)` man page](https://linux.die.net/man/5/dir_colors) ## License Licensed under either of * Apache License, Version 2.0, ([LICENSE-APACHE](LICENSE-APACHE) or http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0) * MIT license ([LICENSE-MIT](LICENSE-MIT) or http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT) at your option. ### Contribution Unless you explicitly state otherwise, any contribution intentionally submitted for inclusion in the work by you, as defined in the Apache-2.0 license, shall be dual licensed as above, without any additional terms or conditions. ### Special Thanks sharkdp for [ls_colors](https://github.com/sharkdp/lscolors) [Crates.io]: https://crates.io/crates/anstyle-ls [Documentation]: https://docs.rs/anstyle-ls