> Since extensions have no meaning to the kernel and, only a few oddball applications (tar, gzip) care about extensions. This tool is pretty clearly meant to b

> Since extensions have no meaning to the kernel and, only a few oddball applications (tar, gzip) care about extensions. This tool is pretty clearly meant to be consumed by a human—if you need a directory listing as part of a shell script you'd just use ls—and humans very much do care about extensions even if the kernel and application don't.