Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2003 12:38:23 +0930 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org> To: Jim Weeks <jim@jwweeks.com> Cc: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: mv file with illegal character Message-ID: <20030422030823.GC28830@wantadilla.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <20030421120037.P11148-100000@veager.jwweeks.com>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Monday, 21 April 2003 at 12:09:15 -0400, Jim Weeks wrote: > This isn't a really a freebsd question, but I can't seem to find the answer > to this elsewhere. I imagine that some of you may have come across the > same situation. > > One of my clients has renamed a directory -backup and now she can't do a > thing with it. Any command seems to pickup the -b as an option rather > than part of the name. I've tried *backup and still the illegal option > error occurs. > > Any ideas? Strangely, nobody else answered this: use ./-backup. . is the current directory, so ./filename is the same as filename for any value of "filename". Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.0 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE+pLInIubykFB6QiMRAlgeAJ9KIXMm07jeikcqo6RRA0ok6METFgCfTsL2 97nG45b7ASh8fz5rmdNqjdQ= =tESs -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----home | help
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