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 $ -- ... _._. ._ ._. . _._. ._. ___ .__ ._. . .__. ._ .. ._. Felix Finch: scarecrow repairman & rocket surgeon / [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG = E987 4493 C860 246C 3B1E 6477 7838 76E9 182E 8151 ITAR license #4933 I've found a solution to Fermat's Last Theorem but I see I've run out of room o