Re: Shell problem!! I'm going crazy!

[Erik Steffl <steffl@bigfoot.com>]

Nils-Erik Svangård wrote:
> Hello!
>
> When I do "cat *" in my homedirectory I get
> the following error message
>
> cat: okänd flagga "--exclude"
> Försök med "cat --help" för mer information.
>
> In english something like
> cat: unknow flag "--exclude"
> Try "cat --help" for more information.
>  
> If I "cd .." and "cat mydir/*" it works and the contents of all files is
> listed. I get the same result if with any terminal and even console. I
> have also tried bash and tcsh with the same result.
>
> I have no idea what this is!!

  looks like there is a file called '--exclude' in the directory, cat 
considers it a switch.

  cat -- * might work (not sure if it works with cat but -- usually 
means that the rest of command line are not options)

  the other option is to try: find . -type f -print0 | xargs -0 cat

	erik