Quoting Jack L. Frost (fbt@???):

> No. The way you use ls in scripts is you don't.
> http://mywiki.wooledge.org/ParsingLs

Amen to that. That's why this entire thread's more than a bit silly.
Use file(1) for that purpose, for heaven's sake.

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