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has caused the Debian Bug report #47906,
regarding /bin/more: [more] trouble dealing with file names that begin with '-'
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Package: util-linux
Version: 2.12-10
Severity: minor
File: /bin/more
More needs a -- flag to allow it to handle filenames that begin
with '-'. Mind you, this isn't the commonest problem in
the world, but whenever I see a file named "-", I wonder
what's inside it.
gpk:tmp$ ls > -
gpk:tmp$ more -
usage: more [-dflpcsu] [+linenum | +/pattern] name1 name2 ...
gpk:tmp$ wc < -
32 32 499
gpk:tmp$
Come to think of it, wc needs a -- argument too: it can't
count words in a file named "-".
Whoops, nor can 'cat'.
Fortunately, 'rm' can handle it:
(quote from man page):
To remove a file whose name starts with a `-', for example `-foo', use one of
these commands:
rm -- -foo
rm ./-foo
I rather suspect that lots of programs can't handle files named '-'.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.8-1-686
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)
Versions of packages util-linux depends on:
ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-20 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii libncurses5 5.4-4 Shared libraries for terminal hand
ii slang1a-utf8 1.4.9dbs-8 The S-Lang programming library wit
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.2-3 compression library - runtime
-- no debconf information
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Version: 2.17.2-1
This has been fixed upstream for a while, so closing this bug.
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Tollef Fog Heen
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