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Old 09-20-2007
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I agree... very odd.

Try making a substitute command. With bash or ksh:
function xmkdir { perl -e 'mkdir(shift)' $1 ; }
xmkdir 12

Does that work? What about "mkdir ./12" and "xmkdir ./12"? What about "touch 12"?
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