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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