Chuck Martin wrote:
>
>Actually, you can. I do it all the time. It's not a good idea to use
>"-" as the first character, though, because it becomes almost impossible
>to use the name on the command line without it being interpreted as an
>option to whatever command you're using.
>
>
In that case, you can always use absolute paths, or adding ./ in front
the filename. I have some directories which begin with a -; to go there,
cd ./-whatever is ok. It may cause problems for some scripting features,
but I've never encoutered any so far,
David
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