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* Re: [gentoo-user] Shell problem
  @ 2008-08-11 15:36 99%   ` Ivan Alden
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From: Ivan Alden @ 2008-08-11 15:36 UTC (permalink / raw
  To: gentoo-user

Hi Felix,

That what it exactly. I couldn't notice it because there were tons of
files in that directory. 

I appreciate your help,
Ivan

On Sun, 2008-08-10 at 22:12 -0700, felix@crowfix.com wrote:
> 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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