Filenames preceded by dash

[Flandry]

I copied a bunch of directories from a FAT filesystem to a Reiser filesystem, and one of the filenames was preceded by two dashes. Now i can't do any wildcard operations on that directory, and any attempt to delete or rename the offending file gives me the error

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unrecognized option: '--filename' 

. It doesn't matter if i use quotes or escape the dash or anything. How can i operate on that file to change the name or get rid of it?

[RoadRunn]

I copied a bunch of directories from a FAT filesystem to a Reiser filesystem, and one of the filenames was preceded by two dashes. Now i can't do any wildcard operations on that directory, and any attempt to delete or rename the offending file gives me the error

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unrecognized option: '--filename' 

. It doesn't matter if i use quotes or escape the dash or anything. How can i operate on that file to change the name or get rid of it?

Try:

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mv -- --filename filename

The "--" parameter is to deal with filenames that have a - in them

[Flandry]

Perfect, just what i was looking for: Thanks!

[canal]

Perfect, just what i was looking for: Thanks!

Yet some programs do not support this feature - then tried and true way (use ./*.txt instead of *.txt ) works too.