[MLUG] a file named minus

[Mike Miller <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

I managed somehow to create a file named '-' (without the quotes). 
Anyway, this was not easy to remove from the command line and it was even 
harder to see the contents of the file.  For example, this fails:

cat '-'

On Solaris, tcsh shell, this failed:

rm '-'

But that same command worked on a Linux box under tcsh.

I didn't think it was that hard to deal with a file with that name.  In 
the end I opened a GUI file manager on Solaris and used that to delete it. 
That was pretty crazy.

Mike

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