On Fri, 19 Jul 2002, Joseph wrote:
> Colleagues
>
> Here is a question for all of the UNIX gurus out there. I have a user who
> named his fid files with a leading dash (i.e. -). Naturally these files
> are not recognized by VNMR and therefore will not load for processing.
> Also, they cannot be renamed or copied by UNIX with mv or cp because the
> dash is interpreted to mean a UNIX option follows. Therefore it reports an
> error.
>
> Is there a way to recover these files?
>From the manual pages:
A `-' permits the user to mark explicitly the end of any
command line options, allowing mv to recognize filename
arguments that begin with a `-'.
mv - oldfilename newfilename
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