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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers How to cat a file , name starts with "-" ? Post 43355 by HikerLT on Sunday 16th of November 2003 07:09:59 AM
Old 11-16-2003
Found answer, thanks for help

Thanks for the help on this. I finally found ( or stumbled across) the answer by looking in the "man rm" , where it says that following the rm command with the "--" means it treats what follows that as a filename, allowing the filename to start with the hyphen.

Is the hyphen a "special character " ? I don't see it listed as such in the lists of special characters.....???
 

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PATHCHK(1)						    BSD General Commands Manual 						PATHCHK(1)

NAME
pathchk -- check pathnames SYNOPSIS
pathchk [-pP] pathname ... DESCRIPTION
The pathchk utility checks whether each of the specified pathname arguments is valid or portable. A diagnostic message is written for each argument that: o Is longer than PATH_MAX bytes. o Contains any component longer than NAME_MAX bytes. (The value of NAME_MAX depends on the underlying file system.) o Contains a directory component that is not searchable. It is not considered an error if a pathname argument contains a nonexistent component as long as a component by that name could be created. The options are as follows: -p Perform portability checks on the specified pathname arguments. Diagnostic messages will be written for each argument that: o Is longer than _POSIX_PATH_MAX (255) bytes. o Contains a component longer than _POSIX_NAME_MAX (14) bytes. o Contains any character not in the portable filename character set (that is, alphanumeric characters, '.', '-' and '_'). No com- ponent may start with the hyphen ('-') character. -P In addition to the default or -p checks, write a diagnostic for each argument that: o Is empty. o Contains a component that starts with a hyphen. EXIT STATUS
The pathchk utility exits 0 on success, and >0 if an error occurs. EXAMPLES
Check whether the names of files in the current directory are portable to other POSIX systems: find . -exec pathchk -p -- {} + SEE ALSO
getconf(1), pathconf(2), stat(2) STANDARDS
The pathchk utility conforms to IEEE Std 1003.1-2001 (``POSIX.1''). HISTORY
A pathchk utility appeared in FreeBSD 5.0. BSD
May 1, 2010 BSD
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