How to choose file based on position in shell ls list?

Question

Say we are using ubuntu's bash and we cd to the folder myFolder.

Now, say we use ls in this folder, and we get a list of files:

file1 file2 file3

We want to, for the sake of this example, run file2 on node.

Is there a way to choose the file based on it's position on the ls list/ folder? For example, something like node "secondFileOfFolderHere"?

Answer 1

node "$(ls -1 | awk 'NR==2')"

-1 switch lists one file per line; awk prints line 2