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as stated above - tells the command to expect options as it is a special character.
You need to remove the special meaning of this either by the backslash or by using quotes.


mv \-9file.jpg...

Hi,

Try this one,


find . -name "-9file.jpg" | xargs -I '{}' mv {} 9file.jpg


Cheers,
Ranga:)

Remember also that you can use backslash to avoid shell interpretation: mv ./\-9file.jpg 9file.jpg

To keep it simple, just use

mv -- -9file.jpg 9file.jpg
The special option "--" can be used to delimit the end of the options. This is useful in delimiting non-option arguments that...

try them out and see what happens! the man pages give examples of what they are but it depends on the OS too, on ubuntu (ie linux) man of rsh and ssh is the page for ssh and the same is true of rcp...

Just type


bash-3.00$ enable
enable .
enable :
enable [
enable alias
enable bg
enable bind
enable break
enable builtin
enable caller
enable cd
enable command
enable compgen
...