How to get a list of file names in different lines

ls -1

That is a number, not small L.

solution without pipe-ing :-)

 ls --format single-column

Note that the long options are only supported on the GNU coreutils where BSD ls only supports the short arguments -1

ls -1. From the help:

-1 list one file per line

Works on cygwin and FreeBSD, so it's probably not too GNU-specific.

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