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Old 04-19-2012
Accessing a badly named directory
Someone in my group manages to name a directory -p. I'm not sure how they did it but it's there.

How can I access the directory or change it's name? I've tried to quote it (cd "-p"). I've tried to use the backslash (cd \-p) and a combination of the two (cd "\-p" and cd \-p). each of these attempts returns an error.

How can I get in or perform a name change?
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Old 04-19-2012
heh.

ok, got that out. most programs will take -- to mean end of options. you could also make it not start with a - by using relative path ./-p

Code:
cd -- -p
cd ./-p

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Old 04-19-2012
Try:

Code:
cd -- -p

Code:
rmdir -- -p

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Old 04-19-2012
I hadn't even considered the ./-p approach. It worked great. Thanks for the quick response.

-- Scott
 
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