@krzym this looks like recursive to me. -a should show really hidden stuff, not just stuff inside containers. Like ghosts and fairies
@krzym @bsdphk at least before natural alphabetic sorting (LANG=C) all the small things were laying on the left hand side of the picture.

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For me "ls" looks like the second picture, and "ls -a" looks like, ... well something you wouldn't want to have to clean up ...