File name with leading dashes

Mike Gorse mgorse at mgorse.dhs.org
Sat Jun 18 18:21:17 UTC 2005


You can work around it by giving ./filename instead of just filename.

I don't know off-hand if there is another way to do it; would need to read 
the manpage for it...

-- Michael Gorse / AIM:linvortex / http://mgorse.home.dhs.org --

On Sat, 18 Jun 2005, Tobias Vinteus wrote:

> Hi,
> After some unsuccessful RTFM I now resort to simply asking: What's the 
> cannonical way of handling leading dashes in file names with mv to rename 
> them to something more sane?
> Thanks,
> /Tobias
>
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