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From: felix@crowfix.com
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Shell problem
Date: Sun, 10 Aug 2008 22:12:32 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080811051232.GA20314@crowfix.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1218459446.6031.4.camel@alden>

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
    $ 

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-08-11  5:12 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 [this message]
2008-08-11 15:36   ` Ivan Alden

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