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by JonathonW 1930 days ago
Someone years ago wanted a shortcut for `ls -lb`, didn't want to change aliases on every machine they use, and had access to the coreutils source?

In GNU coreutils, it's not really "another" ls; it's the same source code with a preprocessor macro set differently (ls, dir, and vdir all share the same source).