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This is true. However, the issue is with the tool outputting unstructured data to begin with. As the `jc` author says, the best would be if tools supported structured output formats to begin with.

Any custom parser of ls output would potentially have the same problem. Of course, it can be improved though – for example by looking at LANG – and it would be nice for such improvements to get into `jc`, so that other tools can rely on it at least more than doing the parsing directly themselves.



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