[clug] Going from 1 to 100 lines of ls wrapping script

[Hal Ashburner]

Given the total lack of interest after a week from a bunch of very cluey
people I guess everyone is actually very happy with an ls they think is
broken, which is an entirely fair enough point of view. Also a good example
of why it is worth stubbing out proposed functionality in shell or some
scripting language before spending a bunch of time with C sources fixing
something to find out it's of close to zero interest to anyone else.
Suggests strongly the gnu coreutils maintainers would not be interested
either.

Still it's a pretty good sledge for *nix-haters
"In order to list things that may contain files you actually have to write
code on *nix" [1][2]
:-)

[1] But the reply is as ever $your_os is ugly and it's mum dresses it funny
more than *nix! :p
[2] It was like that when I got here. That's the way its always been. It
was a decision forced on us by the customer against our counsel.