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mich0w0h

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Shell: How to manipulate dashed file

What I want to achieve

  • manipulate a dashed file in the shell
  • it can't be done the way it is because it's interpreted as an option command

Solution

Specify the file path like ./-.

In the case of creating a file named -, the command would be;

$ touch ./-
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As for opening a file, the command would be;

$ cat ./-
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