Re: [gentoo-user] Shell problem
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 +, 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 $
[gentoo-user] Shell problem
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. how can I fix this? thanks, Ivan
Re: [gentoo-user] Shell problem
looks like an alias, maybe you have accidentaly edited .bashrc or .bash_profile hope this helps Francisco On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 9:57 AM, Ivan Alden [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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. how can I fix this? thanks, Ivan -- If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have one idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas. - George Bernard Shaw
Re: [gentoo-user] Shell problem
2008/8/11 Francisco Ares [EMAIL PROTECTED]: looks like an alias, maybe you have accidentaly edited .bashrc or .bash_profile Just input alias in shell to check if the alias about * exists. hope this helps Francisco On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 9:57 AM, Ivan Alden [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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. how can I fix this? thanks, Ivan -- If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have one idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas. - George Bernard Shaw -- BR, Zhou Rui
Re: [gentoo-user] Shell problem
On Montag, 11. August 2008, 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. how can I fix this? thanks, Ivan unalias?
Re: [gentoo-user] Shell problem
On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 12:57:26PM +, 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
