escaping filenames

[Thomas Stivers]

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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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With most commands you can indicate that there are no more options with "--" before the filename. If that doesn't work then refer to it more specifically with ./filename.

HTH

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Thomas Stivers	e-mail: stivers_t at tomass.dyndns.org
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