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Re: The ls command



On 2025-10-30 at 15:45, Nicolas George wrote:

> The Wanderer (HE12025-10-30):
> 
>> issue is almost certainly not about the characters at the *start*
>> of a filename, but about a filename with a space *in* it and a dash
>> *after that space*.
> 
> Sorry, you should have tested: this is false. The issue is with a
> file name starting with a dash.

...huh. I could have sworn I'd seen this in practice myself, but you're
right, on testing this does in fact work with mid-filename dashes.

My apologies for the false information.

-- 
   The Wanderer

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one
persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all
progress depends on the unreasonable man.         -- George Bernard Shaw

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