On Sun, 4 Mar 2007 15:43:54 ido wrote:
>
> How can I rename and/or delete a file that starts with minus ?
> For example:
>
> mv --test test
>
> will end up with the error:
> mv: unrecognized option `--test'
> Try `mv --help' for more information.
>
> The same error will exists if I'll use the asterisk wildcard instead.
> Please note that I'm looking for a "mv" and "rm" based solutions and
> not the use (for example) midnight commander.
The problem is that the name is interpreted as an option because it
begins with - . You must cause `mv'/`rm' to know that -test is not an
option. You can do it in some ways:
1. You can add -- before the file name, this signals mv/cp/ln/rm that
all the options has been processed, and file name(s) follow. This
is the prefered way - that's why it was built into the file commands.
e.g. mv -- --test test
to delete a file named "--" do: rm -- --
2. You can add directory specification to the file name and so it
won't start with -, any file can be written as ./file .
e.g. mv ./--test test
Any way that will make the 1st file name NOT to start with - will work.
e.g. rm -f dummy-name -file-1 --file-2
Ehud.
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