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? _________________________________ 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 _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list