I just mistyped ls as la. Without noticing, I ran it:
tim@Hairy:~$ la
detection.sh output-2.jpg output-4.jpg output-6.jpg output-8.jpg Test1.pdf
output-1.jpg output-3.jpg output-5.jpg output-7.jpg output-9.jpg tim@Hairy:~$ ls
detection.sh output-2.jpg output-4.jpg output-6.jpg output-8.jpg Test1.pdf
output-1.jpg output-3.jpg output-5.jpg output-7.jpg output-9.jpg What's the difference between ls and la?
2 Answers
From .bashrc file in your home directory, we have these aliases:
# some more ls aliases
alias ll='ls -alF'
alias la='ls -A'
alias l='ls -CF'la is just an alias of ls with just the -A option.
From man ls
ls -alF -a, --all do not ignore entries starting with . -l use a long listing format -F, --classify append indicator (one of */=>@|) to entries
ls -A -A, --almost-all do not list implied . and ..By default la is an alias for ls -A. In contrast to just ls it doesn't omit files starting with a dot, except for . and ..
