\_ sinck@ugive.com wrote: \_ > \_ > \_ There's a couple different ways to do it: \_ > \_ \_ > \_ 1) cp -- -001 /wherever \_ > \_ or \_ > \_ 2) cp ./-001 /whereever \_ > \_ > 3) cp ?001 /wherever \_ > 4) cp *01 /wherever \_ > \_ > shell expansions/wildcards are your friends. \_ > \_ > \_ The same format should work with rm and mv too. \_ > \_ > YMMV on different unices passing a -- \_ \_ Shell expansions result in the error: Doh. Yeah. My bad. YMMV when you've been hacking too long and think it's a good time to answer mail. On the bright side, at least there were no suggestions of trying to use rm on the ever popular "-rf *" file. David