# Handle only the Gnu and MacOS space, dot, plus and at-sign. A full [[:graph:]]
# unfortunately matches a non-ls linefull of dashes.
# Allow the case where we've already picked out the file protection bits.
- s/^([-d](?:[-r][-w][-SsTtx]){3})[.+@]?( +|$)/\1 /;
+ if (s/^([-d](?:[-r][-w][-SsTtx]){3})[.+@]?( +|$)/\1\2/) {
+ s/ +/ /g;
+ }
# ======== Message sizes =========