<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Dec 10, 2015 at 5:42 PM, Murray Eisenberg <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:murrayeisenberg@gmail.com" target="_blank">murrayeisenberg@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="margin:0px;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Menlo"> $ echo -macports</div><div style="margin:0px;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Menlo">-macports</div><div style="margin:0px;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Menlo"><br></div><div style="margin:0px;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Menlo">[NOTE: not pointing to anything]</div><div><br></div><div> $ <span style="font-family:Menlo;font-size:12px">ls -al -macports</span></div><div><span style="font-family:Menlo;font-size:12px">[ lists almost everything in _my_ home directory! ]</span></div><div><br></div><div></div></blockquote></div><br>I think you meant ~ (tilde) there, not - (hyphen). (ls has so many options that "-macports" is a valid set of options.)<br><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div>brandon s allbery kf8nh sine nomine associates</div><div><a href="mailto:allbery.b@gmail.com" target="_blank">allbery.b@gmail.com</a> <a href="mailto:ballbery@sinenomine.net" target="_blank">ballbery@sinenomine.net</a></div><div>unix, openafs, kerberos, infrastructure, xmonad <a href="http://sinenomine.net" target="_blank">http://sinenomine.net</a></div></div></div>
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