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#!/usr/bin/env bash

# Taken from:
# https://gir.st/blog/sl-alt.htm

# sl - prints a mirror image of ls. (C) 2017 Tobias Girstmair, https://gir.st/, GPLv3

LEN=$(ls "$@" |wc -L) # get the length of the longest line

ls "$@" | rev | while read -r line
do
	printf "%${LEN}.${LEN}s\\n" "$line" | sed 's/^\(\s\+\)\(\S\+\)/\2\1/'
done