My sincere apology to those who suggested that I should not post a unix related question to Solaris Sun Manager list. Special thanks to *Richard Lacroix, Scott Fendley, Simon Burr, Lineberger, Aaron., Bill R. Williams, Thomas M. Payerle, Alexandre Wanderley *Following solutions were provided. My original question. Hi Sun Mgr - This seems like a very simple problem but I can not find a solution for this. After reading several man pages, trying google and different options I finally decide to ask. I have few files that start with - as file name. I want to rename them but I can not find a simple solution. File are listed as follows: -work.file01 -work.file02 -work.file03 cp or mv or even ls does not work as all commands assume that - is a flag and not a file name. I have tried double quote "", single quote ''. or even backslash \ before the - character but none of them work. Any other ideas? Thanks. :) Safdar http://www.safdar.com And answer to my question: ls - -work* mv - -work.file01 work.file01 rm - -work.file01 mv ./-work.file01 work.file01 rm -- -work.file01 -- Safdar Mirza http://www.safdar.com _______________________________________________ sunmanagers mailing list sunmanagers@sunmanagers.org http://www.sunmanagers.org/mailman/listinfo/sunmanagersReceived on Thu Mar 2 17:39:52 2006
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