Primitive directory lister, quicker than ls, find and echo *
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# Revision 1.8  2010-06-01 23:51:17  tino
# Standalone version, slightly improved with option -e
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# Revision 1.5  2008-05-07 15:12:17  tino
# dirlist added

Without any option it can skip the stat() call, which can improve
the speed on slow filesystems.

'ls' and 'echo *' are not good from shell's view to work on files.
Even 'for a in *' often is slow, if you happen to hit zillons of files.
This is where dirlist can optimize things as it, by default, outputs
the directory listing unbuffered.

This is a companion to all other tools which can read a file list
from stdin.  Also there is an escape option to properly read filenames
with the shell read command.

Examples are given when you call it with option -h (help).