Re: filenames beginning with "-"

[Heikki Vatiainen <hessu@cs.tut.fi>]

Rob Mahurin <robm@mad.scientist.com> 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
> [...]
> 15:31 ~ $ cat \-011405
> cat: invalid option -- 0

Try something like

$ cat ./-011405

That is, always prepend ./ to the filename if you have files that
start with -

> What are they and how do I make them go away?

I have no idea. Maybe doing cat will help to find out where they 
came from.

> Rob

// Heikki
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Heikki Vatiainen                  * hessu@cs.tut.fi
Tampere University of Technology  * Tampere, Finland