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
