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From: Assaf Gordon <assafgordon <at> gmail.com>
To: 12551 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#12551: ls -l
Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2018 16:07:02 -0600

close 12551
stop

(triaging old bugs)

On 01/10/12 10:49 AM, Bob Proulx wrote:
> 
> Chen,Wei wrote:
>> When I typed 'ls -l *chr4*' in linux, it gave me this:
>>
>> bash-4.1$  ls -l *chr4*
>> ls: invalid option -- '4'
>> Try `ls --help' for more information.
>>
>> It used to work for me, why?
> 
> You are expanding a file glob "*chr4*" in the current directory.  This
> will be expanded to match any files in the current directory.  If any
> of those files start with a dash character '-' then the string will be
> interpreted as an option.
> 

With no further comments to Bob's explanation,
I'm closing this bug.

-assaf

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