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From: Ivan Alden <ivan.alden@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Shell problem
Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2008 12:16:45
Message-Id: 1218469007.6031.11.camel@alden
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Shell problem by felix@crowfix.com
1 Hi Felix,
2
3 That what it exactly. I couldn't notice it because there were tons of
4 files in that directory.
5
6 I appreciate your help,
7 Ivan
8
9 On Sun, 2008-08-10 at 22:12 -0700, felix@×××××××.com wrote:
10 > On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 12:57:26PM +0000, Ivan Alden wrote:
11 > > Hi all,
12 > >
13 > > I was working in a shell with tar and I changed something where now when
14 > > I type "*" it interprets it as --exlucde
15 > >
16 > > i.e
17 > >
18 > > $ *
19 > > bash: --exlucde: command not found
20 > >
21 > > or
22 > >
23 > > $ ls *
24 > > ls: unrecognized option `--exlucde'
25 > > Try `ls --help' for more information.
26 >
27 > Does this happen in every directory, or do you have a file named
28 > "--exlucde" that you created by mistake in the dir where this happens?
29 > That name would tend to sort first ahead of most other names. I can
30 > recreate it like this:
31 >
32 > $ touch ./--exlucde
33 > $ ls *
34 > ls: unrecognized option '--exlucde'
35 > Try `ls --help' for more information.
36 > $
37 >
38 > and I can fix it like this:
39 >
40 > $ rm ./--exlucde
41 > $
42 >