On Thu, Jul 10, 2003 at 11:59:33PM +0200, Nils-Erik Svangård wrote: > > When I do "cat *" in my homedirectory I get > the following error message > > In english something like > cat: unknow flag "--exclude" > Try "cat --help" for more information.
You have a file called "--exclude" in your home directory. Use 'cat --*' (the '--' in the middle tells cat that everything after it is not meant to be a command line option. The same trick works for almost all tools, e.g. rm or mv). -- Stephen Rüger [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
