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From: Grant <emailgrant@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Wildcards stopped working
Date: Wed, 30 May 2007 14:56:01
Message-Id: 49bf44f10705300747o41e51bd3ud938cc68650f395@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Wildcards stopped working by Alan McKinnon
1 > > I routinely use commands like this:
2 > >
3 > > ls -l *.torrent
4 > >
5 > > but today I get this:
6 > >
7 > > $ ls -l *.torrent
8 > > ls: invalid option -- [
9 > > Try `ls --help' for more information.
10 > >
11 > > I get similar results when trying to use wildcards with scp. Did an
12 > > update change this behavior for anyone else?
13 >
14 > You probably have a dodgy alias with a [ in it
15 >
16 > See if '/bin/ls -l *.torrent' gives different results. If so, check
17 > what 'alias ls' returns
18
19 Hi Alan,
20
21 I get:
22
23 $ /bin/ls -l *.torrent
24 /bin/ls: invalid option -- [
25 Try `/bin/ls --help' for more information.
26 $ alias ls
27 alias ls='ls --color=auto'
28
29 Gimp stopped working last night too.
30
31 - Grant
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