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Old 11-17-2003
hint ?
OK....now you are making me even more curious....does your hint have something to do teith the / EOF posted at the end of your message. ?

I assume the other suggestion, using " cat ./-myfile" works because the "." indicates to do a cat on every file located in the directory, including the hidden ones.....and then the forward slash / turns off the option character - that follows...

Thanks again...
# 9  
Old 11-17-2003
One part of his hint involved the forum rules which you have violated. Click on the rules link at the bottom of the page. Take at look at rule number 6.

I don't understand the other part of the hint myself. Backslash is the correct escape character but escaping the hyphen won't help since it's not the shell that is interpreting it specially.
# 10  
Old 11-17-2003
OK, I understand the forum rules now, and apologize. I'm new here, and will not make that mistake again. I did end up finding the answer myself anyways before seeing the otjher posts, just had to dig deeper in another direction.

In any case, I'm intrigued by the number of different ways to perform this same operation within UNIX.....that is why I'm still trying to understand this specific topic I posted more, even though I have the answer I needed....Just seeking to learn more about it.

In any case, I've learned my lesson, not to be repeated. OK ?
 
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