[Tutor] valid filenames

[Rick Pasotto]

On Sun, Apr 01, 2001 at 09:24:06AM -0700, Sheila King wrote:
> On Sun, 1 Apr 2001 17:02:57 +0200, lumbricus@gmx.net  wrote about Re:
> [Tutor]
> valid filenames:
> 
> :U can avoid by not using
> :names like -anything
> :           ^
> 
> The hyphen is not that uncommon in file names on Unix. For example,
> Qmail expects hyphens in the .qmail filenames that can be used for
> filtering email on the RCPT field of the email envelope, and from
> there invoking scripts or forwarding to other addresses or whatever.

The only problem with a hyphen is when it's the first character of the
file name. Doing that causes many commands to confuse it with an option
and special steps have to be taken to get around that.

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		   Rick Pasotto email: rickp@telocity.com