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rated 0 times [ 34] [ 0] / answers: 1 / hits: 7658 / 2 Years ago, thu, march 24, 2022, 4:28:05

I entered la accidentally instead of ls to view the contents of a directory and it produces exactly the same output as ls...

Why is this? Surely it doesn't make sense to have two commands that do the exact same thing.

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answered 2 Years ago njuash · Accepted Answer

la is an alias to ls -A defined in ~/.bashrc file in Ubuntu.

It only shows the same output if you have no hidden files or directories.

ls -A shows hidden files and directories.