escaping filenames

Igor Gueths igueths at lava-net.com
Thu Aug 12 21:45:13 EDT 2004


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I had tried that before posting, and mv still interpreted the - as a command line option being passed to it.
On Thu, Aug 12, 2004 at 08:30:20PM -0500, Gregory Nowak wrote:
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> Try putting the file names in apostrophes, which should prevent the
> shell from messing with them.
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> Greg
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> On Thu, Aug 12, 2004 at 09:14:42PM -0400, Igor Gueths wrote:
> > Hi all. I have some mp3s here that have -'s at the beginning of the filename for some reason. Does anyone know how I would go about escaping so the -'s get ignored? Thanks!
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