Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2000 00:43:58 -0800 From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net> To: Peter Kok <cckok00@stlinux.ouhk.edu.hk> Cc: "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: mistake in mv file Message-ID: <20000111004358.K9397@fw.wintelcom.net> In-Reply-To: <387AE7E0.5D415499@stlinux.ouhk.edu.hk>; from cckok00@stlinux.ouhk.edu.hk on Tue, Jan 11, 2000 at 04:20:48PM %2B0800 References: <387AE7E0.5D415499@stlinux.ouhk.edu.hk>
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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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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