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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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