The ls command inside Vim shows a weird result

Question

When trying to save the file in vim, I used the ls command to see the folder I want to save to. After using the ls command, I got the following result:

Obviously not the contents of the folder. Can someone tell me why this is happening and how to fix it? Thanks:)

Answer 1

Try these two commands

:help :ls :!ls 

Answer 2

:!ls is a call to the ls command in the list of shell == files in the working directory.

:ls is a built-in Vim command that displays the contents of the buffer list == list of your open files.