[clug] Is there ever a good reason to have a filename starting with "-"

Peter Barker pbarker at barker.dropbear.id.au
Fri Jun 27 19:56:45 MDT 2014


On Sat, 28 Jun 2014, Kim Holburn wrote:

> Back To The Future: Unix Wildcards Gone Wild:
>
> http://www.defensecode.com/public/DefenseCode_Unix_WildCards_Gone_Wild.txt

touch -- /--bad-argument-for-rm-rf

I don't do that myself, but it's the best I've seen :-)

> Kim Holburn

Yours,
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