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Re: Accented chars in filenames issue



On 26/06/11 19:25, Tom Furie wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 25, 2011 at 03:20:13PM +1000, Scott Ferguson wrote:
>> On 25/06/11 10:16, lee wrote:

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> You can't have tried very hard then: 'touch -- "-rf *"'.
> 
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> 
> Cheers,
> Tom
> 

You are (also) correct.
Turns out there's a number of ways to do that.

What does the "--" do??
Both:-
$ touch "-rf *"
and:-
$ touch -- "-rf *"
work - so "--" doesn't "appear" to do anything, yet it produces no
error. Strange - I'd expect an error at least.

Cheers

-- 
You know we armed Iraq. I wondered about that too, you know.
During the Persian Gulf war, those intelligence reports would come out:
"Iraq: incredible weapons – incredible weapons."
"How do you know that?" "Uh, well … we looked at the receipts.
But as soon as that check clears, we're goin' in.
What time's the bank open? Eight? We're going in at nine.
~ Bill Hicks on the Gulf War


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