Oops! My apologies. You are correct. The "--" option was the best in this case. "Haste makes waste", as they say. I've been trying to to too many things at once. --Cal Webster On Tue, 2006-09-12 at 07:47, Cameron Simpson wrote: > On 12Sep2006 07:40, Calvin Webster <cwebster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > | No confusion here unless you don't understand that the back-slash is an > | "escape" character, not part of the file name. The problem was that the > | hyphen was misinterpreted by the shell as an option. Enclosing the > | entire name in single-quotes, then escaping the offending character (the > | hyphen), solves the problem. The hyphen is no longer misinterpreted by > | the shell. > > No. Inside single quotes the backslash is not an escape. > > Go do your "touch" command again. Then examine the output of "ls" > carefully, eg by piping it through "od -c". You'll get a surprise. -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
