text: from contextlib import nested
  
  from fabric import api
  from fabric.context_managers import quiet
  
  
  def ls(path):
      """
      Return the list of the files in the given directory, omitting . and ...
  
      Arguments:
          path -- The path of the directory to get the files from
      """
      with nested(api.cd(path), quiet()):
          files = api.run('for i in *; do echo $i; done')
          files_list = files.replace('\r', '').split('\n')
  
      return files_list
  
  
  def file_exists(path):
      """
      Checks if the given path exists on the host and returns True if that's the
      case, False otherwise.
      """
      with quiet():
          exists = api.run('test -e {path}'.format(path=path)).succeeded
  
      return exists
  