Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2020 21:56:25 +0100 From: Steffen Nurpmeso <stef...@sdaoden.eu> Message-ID: <20200131205625.lu2lw%stef...@sdaoden.eu>
| But the usual and portable way to escape a file starting with | a hyphen-minus is to use relative paths, as in ". ./-x"? No, that is an explicit file name, the original searched $PATH to find a file "-x". | In fact this is even necessary to get things done portably, for | example: That's merely illustrating that .profile is not in your $PATH. That's an entirely different issue. kre