From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KSNv7-0007xo-4P for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 11 Aug 2008 03:18:09 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 06C28E061A; Mon, 11 Aug 2008 03:18:06 +0000 (UTC) Received: from yx-out-1718.google.com (yx-out-1718.google.com [74.125.44.157]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D623DE061A for ; Mon, 11 Aug 2008 03:18:05 +0000 (UTC) Received: by yx-out-1718.google.com with SMTP id 4so610164yxp.46 for ; Sun, 10 Aug 2008 20:18:05 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to :subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:references; bh=txNnNK1/r7vaCmKKFCKt1bWeYkkmL4z2g/SCu5bgZ9o=; b=YZQuTYlKak1kyofRYAcJAC9BOJgELhejXwmh5PQT76Ni7reFuvobn4rc5n6s+zoMZn QmgLYLXieWv8PUV6ZUp7Asc8S6ZesQ+GkdFZAjAsdaLcSiOYHY/jlxlhxZupp7Mse4bg 3Y399l55WyoW9yhfgzWPySSYBXFVOGg3oBWkg= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:references; b=KbA/nsw9e9e86qCpudYKjqlQAUalGTugZeoiwlO/aFc01lnVUX2URtiy9J8oevlCm9 O4U+J/aGUOCQqRO2Oby33zcQ6f+w5+V2cl04b+WYicfxJk/VSDCnRIOkigv/Ca7DUPHr gSNEYsxm/dRAOp/E/K2JFEqPbz+133rV/6R2I= Received: by 10.151.15.9 with SMTP id s9mr11422166ybi.43.1218424685033; Sun, 10 Aug 2008 20:18:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.151.147.19 with HTTP; Sun, 10 Aug 2008 20:18:04 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <543f3b9c0808102018p211bbbf1xb328a3f157e6382f@mail.gmail.com> Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2008 00:18:04 -0300 From: "Francisco Ares" To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Shell problem In-Reply-To: <1218459446.6031.4.camel@alden> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_Part_79072_18410405.1218424684994" References: <1218459446.6031.4.camel@alden> X-Archives-Salt: 3d0be685-5ede-42d1-9d82-a509ae32b9a3 X-Archives-Hash: d0554b4d0502fc8fe12dc69e61e6931b ------=_Part_79072_18410405.1218424684994 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline 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 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 > > > -- "If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have one idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas." - George Bernard Shaw ------=_Part_79072_18410405.1218424684994 Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline
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





--
"If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have one idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas." - George Bernard Shaw
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