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Old December 1st, 2003, 04:14 AM
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Can we create a file that starts with hyphen?
Hello all,
I created a file using cat > -
How can I view it

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The secret is "./-" so something like...
more ./-
cat ./-
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Old December 1st, 2003, 09:28 PM
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Hello Perderabo,
Thanks for the reply. I found the answer yesterday but forgot to post. Any how thanks for the reply.

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