File name with leading dashes

[Dave Mielke]

[quoted lines by Tobias Vinteus on 2005/06/18 at 19:35 +0200]

>What's the 
>cannonical way of handling leading dashes in file names with mv to rename 
>them to something more sane?

End the option list with a double dash. For example:

   mv -- -badname goodname

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