[Klug-general] My PFY

[J D Freeman]

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On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 09:10:54AM +0100, David Halliday wrote:
> couldn't this be managed with the find application. Something along the
> lines of "find all files with "-" in their name and replace it with sed
> acting on the mv command. OK this will probably require going in a script
> but interesting problem.
> 
> My biggest joy with file names was using get_iplayer when there was a show
> containing cover versions of Bob Dylan songs called "...sings Dylan" After
> downloading it I couldn't find it in my file browser until I looked again at
> the programme name and realised that the system had concluded that it was a
> file to be hidden.

The writers of many tools have thought about this. 

Given a file called "-rf" you can remove it with:

rm -- -rf

This works with the majority of command line tools. 

J
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