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We'll delve a lot into these details later, but right off the bat, you can see the date when each item was created. Additionally, if you look at the long string of characters to the left, notice that some of them start with "d" - this indicates the directories within your current working directory! (Just a dash "-" means that it's a regular file)
The other main flag that we'll pass is the a flag. Normally, items with names that begin with a dot (".") are hidden from us, as they usually contain some configurations and stuff that isn't used to often. However, we may wish to see these on occasion, which the a flag (for "all") allows us to do:
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