I am running Ubuntu, and would like to open a file whose file name starts with "-"(minus). When I try to open the file with pico or vim, the command thinks that the "-" sign is an option for the command.
I tried enclosing the file name with quotes ('), but I still get the same error.
I tried with bash and zsh, but still the same error.
In cases where command -- -file does not work - since not every program uses the same option parsing routines, command ./-file works everywhere.
Place -- just before file name. In Unix it indicates the end of options for command.
To be more concrete, use: vim -- -file.
I wanted to open a file start with -
I'v tried many ways so that I started to search for it.
finally I've tried to type cat ./-
and it worked with me. thanks for your help Jastin
