From a basic data structures class in college, one might recall that nodes in a tree have can have child nodes. Filesystems, most of them anyway, are structure

From a basic data structures class in college, one might recall that nodes in a tree have can have child nodes. Filesystems, most of them anyway, are structured as trees of files and directories. Therefore one would expect a command named "Get-ChildItem" executed against the current directory to do...? (Aside from that, the Powershell default alias set translates both "dir" and "ls" to Get-ChildItem.)