diff --git a/navigator/src/functions/getDirListing.js b/navigator/src/functions/getDirListing.js
deleted file mode 100644
index edf743e..0000000
--- a/navigator/src/functions/getDirListing.js
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,70 +0,0 @@
-import { useSpawn, errorString } from "@45drives/cockpit-helpers";
-
-/**
- * Callback for handling errors during parsing of `dir` output lines
- * 
- * @callback getDirListingFailCallback
- * @param {String} message - what went wrong
- */
-
-/**
- * Get list of directory entry names for given path
- * 
- * @param {String} path - Directory path to list
- * @param {getDirListingFailCallback} failCallback - Callback function for handling errors, receives {String} message
- * @returns {Promise<String[]>}
- */
-async function getDirListing(path, host, failCallback) {
-	return parseRawDirListing(
-		(
-			await useSpawn([
-				'dir',
-				'--almost-all',
-				'--dereference-command-line-symlink-to-dir',
-				'--quoting-style=c',
-				'-1',
-				path
-			], { superuser: 'try', host }).promise()
-		).stdout,
-		failCallback
-	);
-}
-
-/**
- * Parse raw output of `dir` call from {@link getDirListing()}
- * 
- * @param {String} raw - Raw output of `dir` from {@link getDirListing()}
- * @param {getDirListingFailCallback} failCallback - Callback function for handling errors, receives {String} message
- * @returns {String[]}
- */
-function parseRawDirListing(raw, failCallback) {
-	const decoder = new TextDecoder();
-	return raw.split('\n')
-		.filter(name => name)
-		.map(escaped => {
-			try {
-				return JSON.parse(
-					escaped.replace(
-						/(\\\d{1,3})+/g,
-						octs => decoder.decode(
-							new Uint8Array(
-								octs
-									.split('\\')
-									.slice(1)
-									.map(oct => parseInt(oct, 8)
-								)
-							)
-						)
-					)
-				);
-			} catch (error) {
-				failCallback?.(`${errorString(error)}\ncaused by ${escaped}`);
-				return null;
-			}
-		})
-		.filter(entry => entry !== null);
-}
-
-export { parseRawDirListing }
-
-export default getDirListing;
diff --git a/navigator/src/functions/getDirListing.test.js b/navigator/src/functions/getDirListing.test.js
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index f6f8b25..0000000
--- a/navigator/src/functions/getDirListing.test.js
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-import { parseRawDirListing } from "./getDirListing";
-
-describe('the getDirListing function', () => {
-	it('can parse output of dir', () => {
-		// `dir --almost-all --dereference-command-line-symlink-to-dir --quoting-style=c -1`
-		const input =
-			`"test"
-"sentence test"
-"special\\\\characters\\n\\t"
-"😀"
-`;
-		const expectedOutput = [
-			"test",
-			"sentence test",
-			"special\\characters\n\t",
-			"😀"
-		]
-		const output = parseRawDirListing(input);
-		expect(output).toEqual(expectedOutput);
-		expect(output[1]).toBe("sentence test");
-	});
-
-	it('can parse real output of dir', () => {
-		const input = `"{}"
-		"\\360\\237\\230\\200"
-		"~$lock"
-		"0"
-		"broken"
-		"dir"
-		"dst"
-		"escape"
-		"escape\\ndir"
-		"escapendir"
-		"hello world"
-		"hello\\\\world"
-		"iterate_ips"
-		"md5"
-		"messed"
-		"name"
-		"pdf_numn"
-		"src"
-		"systemd"
-		"test"
-		"test\\nescape\\tname"`;
-		const expectedOutput = [
-			"{}",
-			"😀",
-			"~$lock",
-			"0",
-			"broken",
-			"dir",
-			"dst",
-			"escape",
-			"escape\ndir",
-			"escapendir",
-			"hello world",
-			"hello\\world",
-			"iterate_ips",
-			"md5",
-			"messed",
-			"name",
-			"pdf_numn",
-			"src",
-			"systemd",
-			"test",
-			"test\nescape\tname",
-		]
-		const errorCallback = jest.fn((message) => console.error(message));
-		expect(errorCallback.mock.calls.length).toBe(0);
-		expect(parseRawDirListing(input, errorCallback)).toEqual(expectedOutput);
-	});
-
-	it('can report errors with callback', () => {
-		const errorCallback = jest.fn();
-		const input = "error: example error";
-		parseRawDirListing(input, errorCallback);
-		expect(errorCallback.mock.calls.length).toBe(1);
-	})
-});