try using " " around the filenames.
Joe

> -----Original Message-----
> From: plug-discuss-admin@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us
> [mailto:plug-discuss-admin@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us]On Behalf Of Don
> Harrop
> Sent: Saturday, October 28, 2000 10:12 PM
> To: plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us
> Subject: filenames starting with a '-'
> 
> 
> I was using gphoto to get some images form a camera and didn't assign a
> default filename to prefix the -001 -002 -003... etc..  Now I've got a
> bunch of filenames that start with a '-' and when I use cp or mv on the
> files it thinks that it's an option instead of a file.  Is there an
> undocumented option that will make cp/mv realize that it's dealing with a
> file?  There are other ways to solve the problem but I'd like to know how
> to do it with cp/mv...
> 
> Don
> 
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