On Wed, 30 May 2007 07:25:51 -0700, Grant wrote: > $ ls -l *.torrent > ls: invalid option -- [ > Try `ls --help' for more information.
Torrent files can have weird names, you probably have one named "-- [kewl doodz] -- some dodgy file.torrent". The shell is expanding the wildcard and passing it to ls, which thinks it is an option. The standard way of avoiding this is to use "ls -l -- *.torrent". The -- tells ls that there are no more options and everything else is to be treated as a file. -- Neil Bothwick "Bother," said Pooh, as the pin fell out of the grenade.
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