> If `ls` changed its output format in any way (unless behind a flag) it'd break a heck of a lot of bash scripts. The `jc` ("CLI tool and python library that c

> If `ls` changed its output format in any way (unless behind a flag) it'd break a heck of a lot of bash scripts. The `jc` ("CLI tool and python library that converts the output of popular command-line tools, file-types, and common strings to JSON") documentation[1] & parser[2] for `ls` also demonstrate that reliable & cross-platform parsing of even the current output can be non-trivial based on filenames encountered, flags used & host platform--which means there's probably a non-zero number of bash scripts that are already broken but they don't know it. [1] https://kellyjonbrazil.github.io/jc/docs/parsers/ls https://kellyjonbrazil.github.io/jc/docs/parsers/ls [2] https://github.com/kellyjonbrazil/jc/blob/4cd721be8595db52b620cc26cd455d95bf56b85b/jc/parsers/ls.py#L187 https://github.com/kellyjonbrazil/jc/blob/4cd721be8595db52b6...