The right answer is using -- to stop handling command line arguments.
There is another trick that might help to do it too: using "./" in
front of the filename the filename.
# chown Administrator './-BILLED JOBS - 1997-2002' -R
This should work.
HTH,
Filipe
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On Mon, 2008-10-20 at 11:22 -0400, William L. Maltby wrote:
>
> In most cases, putting a single '-' signals the last "flag" and says
Rats! As Hakan said, '--'
>
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On Mon, 2008-10-20 at 08:04 -0700, Craig White wrote:
> I cannot figure this out...
>
> I would like to change the owner of a bunch of folders whose name begins
> with a dash...
>
> # chown Administrator \-BILLED\ JOBS\ -\ 1997-2002 -R
> chown: invalid option -- B
> Try `chown --help' for more i
On Mon, 2008-10-20 at 16:09 +0100, Hakan Koseoglu wrote:
> Hi Craig,
>
> Craig White wrote:
> > I cannot figure this out...
> >
> > I would like to change the owner of a bunch of folders whose name begins
> > with a dash...
>
> When you are using shell commands, if you use double-dash, you don't
On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 11:04 AM, Craig White <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I cannot figure this out...
>
> I would like to change the owner of a bunch of folders whose name begins
> with a dash...
>
> # chown Administrator \-BILLED\ JOBS\ -\ 1997-2002 -R
> chown: invalid option -- B
> Try `chown --
Hi Craig,
Craig White wrote:
I cannot figure this out...
I would like to change the owner of a bunch of folders whose name begins
with a dash...
When you are using shell commands, if you use double-dash, you don't
need to escape it.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# mkdir -- "-test"
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
I cannot figure this out...
I would like to change the owner of a bunch of folders whose name begins
with a dash...
# chown Administrator \-BILLED\ JOBS\ -\ 1997-2002 -R
chown: invalid option -- B
Try `chown --help' for more information.
# chown Administrator "\-BILLED\ JOBS\ -\ 1997-2002" -R
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