for unixy tools ... well there are lots more, some have made concessions to be less particular as to who considers them nice or friendly. `ls` is very much in

for unixy tools ... well there are lots more, some have made concessions to be less particular as to who considers them nice or friendly. `ls` is very much in the public relations camp, the flamboyant front man, first point of contact. Behind 'ls' is 'stat' which is more a unixy text stream tool's tool than the human friendly `ls` stat -c "%s %n" *