Hence Greg Wooledge's famous advice not to parse the output of ls. As catern points out, in a fully-fledged systems programming language, one can just directly

Hence Greg Wooledge's famous advice not to parse the output of ls. As catern points out, in a fully-fledged systems programming language, one can just directly call the library routines that read directories. And thereby obtain metadata without having to parse it from locale-dependent forms, too. * https://mywiki.wooledge.org/ParsingLs https://mywiki.wooledge.org/ParsingLs * https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/503711/5132 https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/503711/5132