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		randomswede on Nov 5, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Stockholm parents built their own school app, then... I would consider "ls" a presentation tool that uses an API to present information about a file system. I would consider stat/lstat/opendir/readdir/closedir the API that "ls" use to gather the information.

monocasa on Nov 5, 2021 [–]

When you combine it with shell scripts, I'd say that ls is an API to itself.

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