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Bug with filenames starting with a hyphen


From: David Gómez
Subject: Bug with filenames starting with a hyphen
Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2004 19:24:06 +0200
User-agent: Mutt/1.4.1i

Hi,

Several coreutils, like mv, cp, rm, ln, etc... fails when the file passed
as first parameter starts with a hyphen:

$ cp -old new
cp: missing destination file
Try `cp --help' for more information.

thanks,

-- 
David Gómez



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