* 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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