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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>
References:  <20030421120037.P11148-100000@veager.jwweeks.com>

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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 answ=
er
> 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?=20

Strangely, nobody else answered this: use ./-backup.  . is the current
directory, so ./filename is the same as filename for any value of
"filename".

Greg
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