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Re:Unix Wildcards Gone Wild by ganessh on Monday August 18, 2014 @04:15AM (#8191827)
This is a dumb question.

Can files be created with "-" in Unix? I am using a Linux system and I am not able to do so using vim or touch commands.

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Re:Unix Wildcards Gone Wild by Tepix on Monday August 18, 2014 @07:43AM (#8192223)
You can also use the "touch ./-filename" syntax.
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Re:Unix Wildcards Gone Wild by annnnd on Monday August 18, 2014 @04:28AM (#8191853)
Try this:

touch -- -asdf

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Re:Unix Wildcards Gone Wild by ganessh on Monday August 18, 2014 @04:39AM (#8191868)
That works. Thanks :)
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