On Sat, 20 Dec 2008 10:59:09 -0800 Daniel B. Thurman wrote: > Is this some > quirkiness in the way command arguments are > being handled? No quirkiness. Options start with -, putting quotes around a string doesn't change the fact that it starts with a -, it just changes the work the shell does to parse the option before passing it to the command. I have no idea who is parsing what when you pass '\-foo' though :-). The reliable way to pass anything to most commands is to tell the command you are done with options and everything else is a positional argument by using the -- option terminator: touch -- -foo Naturally, it depends on the command if it interprets -- that way or not, but 90% of the standard utility commands like mv, cp, touch, etc do in fact look for --. Another technique some people use for things that are filenames is this: touch ./-foo -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
