[PLUG] Moving/removing files with leading hyphen

Paul Johnson baloo at ursine.ca
Wed Aug 4 12:45:22 UTC 2004


Rich Shepard <rshepard at appl-ecosys.com> writes:

>   I've forgotten the wrapper for files inadvertently created with a leading
> hyphen. Slash and back-slash don't escape the wayward character. My google
> searches are not properly formed for they do not produce a result.

Use doublequotes, failing that, try singlequotes, around the filename.
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