This is completely my fault.  I did something stupid and I don't know how to fix it. I installed gpm, a console mouse server and was testing it.  This is what I did:sudo apt-get install gpmman gpmselected some random text from man page with mousepasted this random text with mouseNow whenever I type the ls command (in this case directory is empty) this is what happens:doug@debian:~$ lse the right butt on each line will be removed from the ole holding the selection will clear theMy bash history file doesn't show what command I've typed to change the behavior of ls.  It's still aliased correctly as ls='ls --color=auto'What could I have done?  I feel stupid :(
Strange text appended to output of ls command
linux;bash
That listing shows what is actually present in that directory.  The spaces in the file name(s) makes it impossible to distinguish them clearly.  Using a long listing (ls -l) allows to get a better picture of the situation.