For a person who knows how to use a man page, ls is a simple and highly effective tool for a simple purpose. Part of becoming a unix guru is learning to deal wi

For a person who knows how to use a man page, ls is a simple and highly effective tool for a simple purpose. Part of becoming a unix guru is learning to deal with the idiosyncrasies of the system. I see it as much like learning a natural language; they all have strange rules that are unintuitive to us at first, but we overcome these with practice and patience. That's not to say however that redesign in certain areas wouldn't be a great thing.