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, [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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 > $ >
