How can I get rid of the ./ and ../ in the ls output

Question

I want to remove the .. and . entry in the ls output. How ever, running

ls . | sed '/^\.\./d;/^\.\//d'

doesn't work for me (./ is still here) and I can't figure out why.

Answer 1

ls has -A option exactly for this purpose:

ls -A

From man ls:

-A, --almost-all
              do not list implied . and ..