"Meyer, Duane" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I have managed to create a file that begins with '-r' and contains
> several other '-'(dash) characters throughout. [...] Why, if I
> enclose the thing in double quotes, single quotes, spackle it with
> '\' escapes, would the program try to read the first two characters
> as anything other than part of the name?
The shell is the only thing that ever sees the quotes. By the time mv
or rm is invoked, it's just a string that starts with -, so it gets
treated as an option string. Prefix it with "./", and it'll look like
a filename.
paul
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