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

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