From: Safdar Mirza (safdarm@gmail.com)
Date: Thu Mar 02 2006 - 17:39:21 EST
My sincere apology to those who suggested that I should not post a unix
related question to Solaris Sun Manager list.
Special thanks to *Richard Lacroix, Scott Fendley, Simon Burr, Lineberger,
Aaron., Bill R. Williams, Thomas M. Payerle, Alexandre Wanderley *Following
solutions were provided.
My original question.
Hi Sun Mgr -
This seems like a very simple problem but I can not find a solution for
this. After reading several man pages, trying google and different options
I finally decide to ask.
I have few files that start with - as file name. I want to rename them but I
can not find a simple solution. File are listed as follows:
-work.file01
-work.file02
-work.file03
cp or mv or even ls does not work as all commands assume that - is a flag
and not a file name. I have tried double quote "", single quote ''. or
even backslash \ before the - character but none of them work. Any
other ideas? Thanks.
:) Safdar
And answer to my question:
ls - -work*
mv - -work.file01 work.file01
rm - -work.file01
mv ./-work.file01 work.file01
rm -- -work.file01
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