At 06:11 PM 7/11/00 , you wrote:
>some program, gphoto I think, named a bunch of files -004.jpg -005.jpg
>....
>when I try to issue a command on them to rename them like chmod or mv it
>won't work because the command interprets -0 as an option (and of course
>there is no option 0) I thought that there was syntax to say anything
>past this is NOT an option but I cannot find it if it exists. How can I
>rename these files?
>
>Bret
>
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mv ./-filename filename
Took me a minute to figure out.
I was surprised that mv '-filename' filename or mv "-filename" filename
didn't work.
Wes
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