Haines Brown <[email protected]> writes:

> I've managed to create some files, the names of which start with a
> dash ("-"). Stupid, I know.

No, there's no restriction from using those filenames.

> I have not been able to figure out how to run commands on them such as
> cat or to cut out the leading dash (mv).

Use -- to tell the command, that from there on, no options are given
anymore.

# Delete the files -i and --interactive
$ rm -- -i --interactive

Bye,
Tassilo


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