ls -a

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Maybe an alternative way:

Pic A - Normal image

Pic B - Same place illuminated with ultraviolet light

yeah that would make more sense

Barbarians.

ls -la, for civilized people.

-lah gang rise up

-Ahl here! Human-readable sizes and get rid of . and ..!

edit: format code so ..! doesn't look funny :D

I like ls -Ap, the -p option is convenient, it puts a / at the end of names if they're directories. -A is like -a but doesn't show . and ..

-l is sometimes useful, but a bit cluttered and less readable (at least to me, maybe it wouldn't be if I were used to using it)

Do you mean putting the l before the a, or just the l and a flags in general?

That's what we call lla here at ~

Showing what's in the cupboards & drawers is more like

ls -R

I like the la alias.

ll so you don't even have to move your finger

Doesn't show dotfiles.

Depends on the distro how that alias is defined (if it is defined)...

That is true, but I would define standard practice like this:
ls -l = ll
And
ls -la = la

but if your hand is already on the keyboard, it's faster to type la than ll since you can move two hands faster than one (if they're doing the same movement, since with one hand you'd need to do the movement, reset and do it again)

But I have 10 of those to type with?

"So that's where all my stuff went!"

speed through the house with ncdu

I'm an ls -alh guy, myself.

Human-readable? What, are you some kind of human?

ls -latr

To see where's the most recent shit cause that's what I'm interested in.

Is -alR killed my parents

Lulz, I tried that just to see the results. Either the terminal knows to not go crazy, or this fresh install is small enough to not take more than 5 seconds.

ls -ha.. is Linux laughing at my mess..???

Wait till they try
ls -laz

Average xdg noncompliance moment.

man i just figured out DOS in the 80s i'm slow okay

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