Re: filenames beginning with "-"
On Sun, Oct 10, 1999 at 03:40:41PM -0400, Rob Mahurin wrote:
> Apparently about an hour ago something made a few files in my homedir
> that began with "-", and now I can't read them and can't remove them:
>
> 15:30 ~ $ ls
> total 80
> -rw------- 1 alphengl alphengl 226 Oct 10 14:30 -011405
> -rw------- 1 alphengl alphengl 226 Oct 10 14:33 -011485
> -rw------- 1 alphengl alphengl 226 Oct 10 14:42 -011611
# cat -- -011405
[...]
#rm -- -011405
The "--" tells the program that everything else after it is not an option,
but a normal argument. I have no idea what they are though.
Ben
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