What is the la command?
From .bashrc file in your home directory, we have these aliases:
# some more ls aliases
alias ll='ls -alF'
alias la='ls -A'
alias l='ls -CF'
la is just an alias of ls with just the -A option.
From man ls
ls -alF
-a, --all
do not ignore entries starting with .
-l use a long listing format
-F, --classify
append indicator (one of */=>@|) to entries
ls -A
-A, --almost-all
do not list implied . and ..
By default la is an alias for ls -A. In contrast to just ls it doesn't omit files starting with a dot, except for . and ..