coreutils: dir invocation

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1 10.2 ‘dir’: Briefly list directory contents
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1 ‘dir’ is equivalent to ‘ls -C -b’; that is, by default files are listed
1 in columns, sorted vertically, and special characters are represented by
1 backslash escape sequences.
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1    ⇒‘ls’ ls invocation.
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