Re: writing special characters

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Author: Mikey
Date:  
To: plug-discuss
Subject: Re: writing special characters
On Wednesday 26 January 2005 12:52, todd hewett wrote:
> cp -- X -X works as well as cp X ./-X
>
> Of interesting note on Mac OSX cp X '-X' worked fine.
>


Of the above mentioned only cp X ./-X worked. Why is that? Is that how the
escape character works; only with the period? I am confused!

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