tag 17372 notabug close 17232 stop On 04/29/2014 03:34 PM, Scott Brunner wrote: > Hi Folks, > > Not sure I'm in the right place - but - I'm having a problem with the "mv" > command in Cygwin's Unix emmulator... The man page directed me to this > address... I have a bunch of files that all start with the "-" character > (-moo, -moo1, -moo2)... Obviously the "-" is treated as a switch in the Unix > world - so you can't do simple moves as you would in Solaris... I'm not sure > if the goal of your GNU release is supposed to match the functionality of > Unix but I just wanted to point this out in case you were unaware... > > In Solaris - this works: > > mv -f - '-moo' SCO-moo > > In Cygwin - it does not...
two -- are need to terminate option processing in GNU land mv -f -- '-moo' SCO-moo See also: http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/faq/coreutils-faq.html#I-have-a-file-_0027_002df_0027-and-it-affects-rm_002e thanks, Pádraig.
