hello again list
got a simple question here:

i know how to do this:

  cp /dev/null file.txt

but what if i want the file name to start with a "-"?

  cp /dev/null "-file.txt"   # doesn't work
  cp /dev/null \-file.txt    # doesn't work either

any suggestions?


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daniel a. g. quinn
starving programmer

every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies
in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who
are cold and are not clothed.  this world in arms is not spending money
alone.  it is spending the sweat of its labourers, the genius of its
scientists, the hopes of its children.  this is not a way of life at all in
any true sense.  under the clouds of war, it is humanity hanging on a cross
of iron.
 - dwight Eisenhower, april 16, 1953




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