public inbox for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
 help / color / mirror / Atom feed
From: Ivan Alden <ivan.alden@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Shell problem
Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2008 15:36:47 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1218469007.6031.11.camel@alden> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080811051232.GA20314@crowfix.com>

Hi Felix,

That what it exactly. I couldn't notice it because there were tons of
files in that directory. 

I appreciate your help,
Ivan

On Sun, 2008-08-10 at 22:12 -0700, felix@crowfix.com wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 12:57:26PM +0000, Ivan Alden wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > I was working in a shell with tar and I changed something where now when
> > I type "*" it interprets it as --exlucde
> > 
> > i.e 
> > 
> > $ *
> > bash: --exlucde: command not found
> > 
> > or
> > 
> > $ ls *
> > ls: unrecognized option `--exlucde'
> > Try `ls --help' for more information.
> 
> Does this happen in every directory, or do you have a file named
> "--exlucde" that you created by mistake in the dir where this happens?
> That name would tend to sort first ahead of most other names.  I can
> recreate it like this:
> 
>     $ touch ./--exlucde
>     $ ls *
>     ls: unrecognized option '--exlucde'
>     Try `ls --help' for more information.
>     $ 
> 
> and I can fix it like this:
> 
>     $ rm ./--exlucde
>     $ 
> 




      reply	other threads:[~2008-08-11 12:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-08-11 12:57 [gentoo-user] Shell problem Ivan Alden
2008-08-11  3:18 ` Francisco Ares
2008-08-11  3:23   ` Zhou Rui
2008-08-11  3:44 ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2008-08-11  5:12 ` felix
2008-08-11 15:36   ` Ivan Alden [this message]

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=1218469007.6031.11.camel@alden \
    --to=ivan.alden@gmail.com \
    --cc=gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox