command line escaping a dash

[Craig White <craigwhite@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I cannot figure this out...

I would like to change the owner of a bunch of folders whose name begins
with a dash...

# chown Administrator \-BILLED\ JOBS\ -\ 1997-2002 -R
chown: invalid option -- B
Try `chown --help' for more information.

# chown Administrator "\-BILLED\ JOBS\ -\ 1997-2002" -R
chown: cannot access `\\-BILLED\\ JOBS\\ -\\ 1997-2002': No such file or
directory

# chown Administrator "-BILLED JOBS - 1997-2002" -R
chown: invalid option -- B
Try `chown --help' for more information.

# chown Administrator '-BILLED JOBS - 1997-2002' -R
chown: invalid option -- B
Try `chown --help' for more information.

?

Craig

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