Re: Wildcards stopped working

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Wildcards stopped working
\ Grant (30 May 2007)
. \ Alan McKinnon (30 May 2007)
. . \ Grant (30 May 2007)
. \ Neil Bothwick (30 May 2007)
. . \ Grant (30 May 2007)

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Subject:	Re: Wildcards stopped working
Group:	Gentoo-user
From:	Grant
Date:	30 May 2007

> > $ 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
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