Question

find . -maxdepth 1

how to omit ./ current directory prefix from the output?

Also is there any way to ls the output separated by newlines AND containing only file/dir name field(e.g. no file attributes), like this

file1.txt
dir1
file2.txt
dir2

Answer 1

You can use ls -1 to get the output you want from ls. From the ls(1) man page:

   -1     list one file per line

The -1 format is also the default when the output of ls isn’t a terminal.

To strip the ./ from find, I’d just do:

find . | cut -c 3-