look for fancy dashes byte-wise, rather than literally
-rw-r--r-- .gitignore
-rw-r--r-- Changes
-rw-r--r-- MANIFEST.SKIP
-rw-r--r-- Makefile.PL
drwxr-xr-x eg
drwxr-xr-x lib
drwxr-xr-x maint
drwxr-xr-x t