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Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2000 13:28:33 +0200 (MET DST)
From: Hans-Bernhard Broeker <broeker AT physik DOT rwth-aachen DOT de>
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Subject: Re: "ls" bug ?
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On Thu, 15 Jun 2000, Pierre Muller wrote:

>   Doing "ls *.exe "
> 
> gives me invalid option -- .
[...]
> file with name -gstab.exe
> (note the leading minus !)

That's exactly your problem. ls *.exe expands to 'ls -gstab.exe'.
'ls' sees the '-' and thinks you're passing it options.

This is not a bug in ls, but a slightly incorrect way of using it. To pass
filenames beginning with '-' to any Unix-borne utility, you have to inform
it that these command line arguments are not options. The '--' options
does that:

	ls -- *.exe

will work.

Conclusion: don't use filenames beginning with a '-'.

Hans-Bernhard Broeker (broeker AT physik DOT rwth-aachen DOT de)
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