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Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2000 00:43:58 -0800
From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net>
To: Peter Kok <cckok00@stlinux.ouhk.edu.hk>
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Subject: Re: mistake in mv file
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* Peter Kok <cckok00@stlinux.ouhk.edu.hk> [000111 00:41] wrote:
> Hello
> 
> I made a mistake to using mv
> 
> mv .xinitrc -xinitrc but I couldn't recover
> 
> please teach me

almost all unix commands allow the sequence '--' to stop option parsing.

what you want to do is:

mv -- -xinitrc .xinitrc

good luck,
-Alfred


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