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From: Unknown@stcns3.stc.oz (Dave Horsfall)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: command line options
Message-ID: <348@stcns3.stc.oz>
Date: 13 Apr 88 23:35:55 GMT
References: <2414@zyx.UUCP> <8039@elsie.UUCP> <7628@brl-smoke.ARPA> <7630@brl-smoke.ARPA> <8041@elsie.UUCP>
Reply-To: dave@stcns3.stc.oz (Dave Horsfall)
Organization: STC Pty Ltd, North Sydney, AUSTRALIA
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Really-From: dave@stcns3.stc.oz (Dave Horsfall)


In article <8041@elsie.UUCP> ado@elsie.UUCP (Arthur David Olson) writes:
>I clearly wasn't clear enough here.  Let's say I have a command "-w" in my
>"bin" directory that I use as a shorthand for "chmod -w", and a command "-x"
>that I use as a shorthand for "chmod -x".  (And yes, this is a real-life
>example).  Now watch what happens with two different uses of "od -?":

I seem to recall some Unix documentation somewhere saying something like
"Note: it is generally unwise to have file names starting with `-'".  Now,
if people are going to ignore the recommendations of a Unix author...  :-) 

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