[mike@thiscomputer ~]$ ls -l |sed -e 's/^/\t/g'
        total 188
        drwxr-xr-x  2 mike users   4096 2008-03-05 19:43 Desktop
        drwxr-xr-x 12 mike users   4096 2008-03-01 22:14 code
        drwxr-xr-x 11 mike users   4096 2008-03-01 23:21 etc
        drwxr-xr-x 10 mike users   4096 2008-03-01 20:51 httproot
        drwxr-xr-x  2 mike users   4096 2008-02-27 21:11 music
        -rw-r--r--  1 mike users   4606 2008-03-05 16:21 progressbar.tar.bz2
        -rw-r--r--  1 mike users 154967 2008-02-27 19:42 sunrise.png
        drwxr-xr-x  3 mike users   4096 2008-03-06 19:35 temp
[mike@thiscomputer ~]$ ls -l --color |sed -e 's/^/\t/g'
        total 188
        drwxr-xr-x  2 mike users   4096 2008-03-05 19:43 Desktop
        drwxr-xr-x 12 mike users   4096 2008-03-01 22:14 code
        drwxr-xr-x 11 mike users   4096 2008-03-01 23:21 etc
        drwxr-xr-x 10 mike users   4096 2008-03-01 20:51 httproot
        drwxr-xr-x  2 mike users   4096 2008-02-27 21:11 music
        -rw-r--r--  1 mike users   4606 2008-03-05 16:21 progressbar.tar.bz2
        -rw-r--r--  1 mike users 154967 2008-02-27 19:42 sunrise.png
        drwxr-xr-x  3 mike users   4096 2008-03-06 19:35 temp
        [mike@thiscomputer ~]$