looks like an "alias", maybe you have accidentaly edited .bashrc or
.bash_profile

hope this helps
Francisco

On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 9:57 AM, Ivan Alden <ivan.alden@gmail.com> 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.
>
> how can I fix this?
>
> thanks,
> Ivan
>
>
>


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