RT: @nixcraft

Let us talk about various ways to list files on your Linux and Unix box.

The usual:
ls
dir

Other methods
echo *
printf "%s\n" *
find /dir/ -ls
du -a -d 1 | awk '{print $2}'
stat -c %n *
grep -l '.*' ./*
du -sh *
awk '{print FILENAME;nextfile}' *