[gentoo-user] Wildcards stopped working
I routinely use commands like this: ls -l *.torrent but today I get this: $ ls -l *.torrent ls: invalid option -- [ Try `ls --help' for more information. I get similar results when trying to use wildcards with scp. Did an update change this behavior for anyone else? - Grant -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Wildcards stopped working
On Wednesday 30 May 2007, Grant wrote: I routinely use commands like this: ls -l *.torrent but today I get this: $ ls -l *.torrent ls: invalid option -- [ Try `ls --help' for more information. I get similar results when trying to use wildcards with scp. Did an update change this behavior for anyone else? You probably have a dodgy alias with a [ in it See if '/bin/ls -l *.torrent' gives different results. If so, check what 'alias ls' returns alan -- Optimists say the glass is half full, Pessimists say the glass is half empty, Developers say wtf is the glass twice as big as it needs to be? Alan McKinnon alan at linuxholdings dot co dot za +27 82, double three seven, one nine three five -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Wildcards stopped working
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. signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Wildcards stopped working
I routinely use commands like this: ls -l *.torrent but today I get this: $ ls -l *.torrent ls: invalid option -- [ Try `ls --help' for more information. I get similar results when trying to use wildcards with scp. Did an update change this behavior for anyone else? You probably have a dodgy alias with a [ in it See if '/bin/ls -l *.torrent' gives different results. If so, check what 'alias ls' returns Hi Alan, I get: $ /bin/ls -l *.torrent /bin/ls: invalid option -- [ Try `/bin/ls --help' for more information. $ alias ls alias ls='ls --color=auto' Gimp stopped working last night too. - Grant -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Wildcards stopped working
$ 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. Works perfectly. Thanks Neil. - Grant -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
