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doc: mention find/stat in ls documentation

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Message #11 received at 33577 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson <jidanni <at> jidanni.org>
To: Bob Proulx <bob <at> proulx.com>
Cc: 33577 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#33577: ls lacks null terminator option
Date: Wed, 05 Dec 2018 04:35:09 +0800

Bob, I remember from my K&R Unix book that ls can be used in scripts.
In fact that is why
$ ls
acts different than
$ ls | cat

Plus there are lots of things ls can do that find cannot.

For instance sorting.

How are you going to do
$ ls -t
with find?

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