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From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn )
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Fun with *
Message-ID: <8943@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Date: 20 Nov 88 02:50:24 GMT
References: <1232@atari.UUCP> <564@comdesign.CDI.COM> <17247@agate.BERKELEY.EDU>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <17247@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> weemba@garnet.berkeley.edu (Obnoxious Math Grad Student) writes:
>And while you're at it, don't forget the problem of the lexicograph-
>ically first file being named "-f".

In a general-purpose shell script, one would want to use the -- option
list terminator to avoid this problem.  (Some systems still don't fully
support the UNIX command language syntax standard, though.)