Dear Maintainer, Given /bin/ls --color --quoting-style=c -lD tests/wc/data/ . > ll (attached), ll ends with //SUBDIRED// 2 5 14977 14993 which yields $ dd bs=1 skip=14977 count=$(( 14993 - 14977 )) < ll 2>/dev/null ; echo -xr-x 1 nabijacz and as obvious from the arguments, the second subdir is tests/wc/data/. Removing --color yields a valid output. Best,