bug#44273: "total used in directory 19 available 5.2 GiB"

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> The data can come from `ls-lisp', but it could also come from "ls": We
>> just need to write a parser that parses the data.
>
> The data which comes from 'ls' can take many different formats,
> depending on the switches.  Parsing each and every one of them sounds
> daunting.

But dired does parse the output.  It's just that it leaves all the
artefacts in the buffer, leading all the commands to have workarounds
for different layouts. 

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