[wplug] Dumb question on rm or mv

William Powell billpwl1 at comcast.net
Fri Aug 1 19:24:59 EDT 2003


You can enclose the whole file name in double quotes as part of the mv 
command:
mv "-08-01-2002.sql" 08-01-2002.sql


Bill

Russ Schneider wrote:

> I mistakenly generated a file name -08-01-2002.sql
> Now, when I try and rm or mv it, I get an error because the system 
> thinks it's an option because of the -.
>
> How to I rm this file?
>

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