coreutils: vdir invocation

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1 10.3 ‘vdir’: Verbosely list directory contents
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1 ‘vdir’ is equivalent to ‘ls -l -b’; that is, by default files are listed
1 in long format and special characters are represented by backslash
1 escape sequences.
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1    ⇒‘ls’ ls invocation.
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