Comments on: Quick tip: Delete or rename files with leading dash (-)

By: Dan C

Dan C — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 18:09:16 +0000

Oh no you can’t. Ignore that

Dan C — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 18:01:21 +0000

You could double dash.

Or backslash escape the offending character.

mv \-somefile.txt somefile.txt

NM — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 12:36:38 +0000

Or simply use “–” to signal the end of options. As in:

mv — -somefile.txt somefile.txt

peje — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 08:21:31 +0000

Or, you can use a double dash to make mv, cp to stop interpreting options:

mv — -somefile.txt somefile.txt

arne — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 06:47:28 +0000

Couldn’t you also do:

mv — -somefile.txt somefile.txt