[ale] mv a file that starts with - ?

[Greg Freemyer]

Thanks,

Everyone but me remembered -- to terminate the options list.

Greg

On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 4:44 PM, Jim Lynch
<ale_nospam at fayettedigital.com> wrote:
> Greg Freemyer wrote:
>> All,
>>
>> I have a bunch of files/directories that I encrypt via encfs.
>>
>> I want to mv the encrypted files from one location to another.
>>
>> Not too hard, except one of the files starts with - and mv is taking
>> it as an invalid argument.
>>
>> I've forgotten if there is a workaround for this or not.
>>
>> Thanks
>> Greg
>>
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> A couple of possibilities come to mind.  Try referring to the file as
> ./-xyz.  Also some commands will stop processing at a double dash, e.
> g.   rm -rf -- -dumbfilename
>
> Jim.
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