[Bendug] file name oddities

[Gary E. Miller]

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Yo Tim!

On Sat, 18 Feb 2006, Tim Howe wrote:

> I'm thinking of updating my file name normalizing script (I use it for f
> iles in web directories) to get rid of crap like this.  Did I miss some
> obvious solution?  For some reason I think I did.

Hackers love to use file names like that, and worse.  Yoy have several choices
depending on the command you wish to run.

Most program that take command line arguments starting with - allow
you to specify the end of "-args" and the start of file names with the "--"
arg.  This is POSIX standard so should also apply to most BSD flavors.

So you could do this:
	mv -- -stupidfilename goodfilename


RGDS
GARY
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