a. Try to put AFTER all the regular "minus" options a double-dash
("--"), i.e.
mv -v -- oldfile newfile
this tells the command line parser that no options come after the
double-dash.
b. sometimes backslash, or tick, is enough, i.e.
rm -v 'my*file'
or
rm -v my\*file
- Oren
ik wrote:
Hello,
How can I rename and/or delete a file that starts with minus ?
For example:
mv --test test
will end up with the error:
mv: unrecognized option `--test'
Try `mv --help' for more information.
The same error will exists if I'll use the asterisk wildcard instead.
Please note that I'm looking for a "mv" and "rm" based solutions and
not the use (for example) midnight commander.
Thanks,
Ido
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