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There's a couple different ways to do it:

1) cp -- -001 /wherever
or
2) cp ./-001 /whereever

The same format should work with rm and mv too.

	--Nick

On Sat, 28 Oct 2000, Don Harrop wrote:

> I was using gphoto to get some images form a camera and didn't assign a
> default filename to prefix the -001 -002 -003... etc..  Now I've got a
> bunch of filenames that start with a '-' and when I use cp or mv on the
> files it thinks that it's an option instead of a file.  Is there an
> undocumented option that will make cp/mv realize that it's dealing with a
> file?  There are other ways to solve the problem but I'd like to know how
> to do it with cp/mv...
> 
> Don
> 
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