Chuck Martin wrote: > >Actually, you can. I do it all the time. It's not a good idea to use >"-" as the first character, though, because it becomes almost impossible >to use the name on the command line without it being interpreted as an >option to whatever command you're using. > > In that case, you can always use absolute paths, or adding ./ in front the filename. I have some directories which begin with a -; to go there, cd ./-whatever is ok. It may cause problems for some scripting features, but I've never encoutered any so far, David
