Original submitted version would break if any filenames had whitespaces in them. The command is a Bad Idea anyhow, because you will end up `cat`ing a binary or something else specacularly bad.
It can be used to create an index of a backup directory or to find some file.
I needed this for wine.
file displays a files type the -L flag means follow sym-links (as libraries are often sym-linked to another this behavior is likely preferred) more complex behavior (*two* grep commands!) could be used to determine if the file is or is not a shared library.
With counter format [001, 002, ..., 999] , nice with pictures or wallpapers collections.
Renames files in a directory to incremental numbers, following alphabetic order. The command does not maintain extensions.
Also lists hidden files, current dir and topdir.
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