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> I barely ever even use the -la options.

Certainly I use these less than plain "ls," but digging through hidden files and folders and looking at timestamps is very important for me.

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karmakaze 17 hours ago | parent | next [-]

That's the first thing I noticed in the options, it has modified date but not create or access date (listing or sorting) that I could tell. Of course it could be added, or I could just use `ls`.

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dangus 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I use ls -la via the ll alias exclusively. I find it far more readable to my eyes than plain ls.

Hidden files are almost always of interest to me since my job involves configuring servers.

	▲	cb321 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		https://github.com/c-blake/lc shows all files, including hidden files (starting with dot aka dot files) by default, suppressible in output with -xdot or a shell/internal alias to the same effect. It helps to start with a more extensible/less built-in idea of "file type". "odd permissions" are another type that might interest someone, for example, such as "setgid but not group-executable" or "writable but not readable" or etc. Yes, I know one can also use `find` or etc. for that, but there's no crime in there being >1 way to see things and, for some people, colors can make things really stand out - as can sort order which is another more color-blind possibility in `lc` as well as the simple filter-or-not of ls -a/-A.