Oh, you can also prefix such strange file names with "./" to work with
them, e.g.:
$ ls -la
total 8
drwxr-xr-x 2 mbt mbt 4096 2009-04-16 00:37 ./
drwxr-xr-x 85 mbt mbt 4096 2009-04-16 00:37 ../
$ touch ./--
$ ls -la
total 8
-rw-r--r-- 1 mbt mbt0 2009-04-16 00:37 --
drwxr-xr-x 2 mbt mbt 40
To create a file named "--" you would need the command:
touch -- --
However, do keep in mind that files like this would be really hard to
work with. For example:
$ ls -la
total 8
drwxr-xr-x 2 mbt mbt 4096 2009-04-16 00:31 ./
drwxr-xr-x 85 mbt mbt 4096 2009-04-16 00:31 ../
$ touch -- --
$ ls -l
** Attachment added: "Dependencies.txt"
http://launchpadlibrarian.net/25516334/Dependencies.txt
** Attachment added: "ProcMaps.txt"
http://launchpadlibrarian.net/25516335/ProcMaps.txt
** Attachment added: "ProcStatus.txt"
http://launchpadlibrarian.net/25516337/ProcStatus.txt
--
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