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From: "Thomas Mueller" <mueller23@insightbb.com>
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Subject: Re: less and vi fail on file whose name begins with +
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from Glen Barber <gjb@FreeBSD.org>:

> less(1) is expecting '+' to be followed by additional arguments.

> If you use 'less -- +DESC', for example, it should work fine.  Same with
> vi(1).

Yes, that works, as does "less ./+DESC".

Somehow I thought I had successfully done "less +CONTENTS" successfully before, but I must have preceded filename by path.

Less and vi failing when used directly on filename beginning with + is also true for Linux, I checked on Slackware 13.0.

Thanks to you and others for helpful responses.

Tom