>terminal emulators (like terminator) recognize output iirc, if your terminal emulator is doing something funny with the output of `ls` it's because they've re

>terminal emulators (like terminator) recognize output iirc, if your terminal emulator is doing something funny with the output of `ls` it's because they've re-implemented it as a function and are intercepting the call to ls and running their function instead, not because they're recognizing the output.