mv, rm lack of "feature"

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From: Christopher Marshall
Date: Tue, 13 Feb 1990 04:16

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It appears that there is no provision in the GNU mv or rm for dealing
with odd filenames like "-personal".  E.g. our version of mv uses a
"-" to indicate that the there are no more following command options.

Christopher Marshall
chris@star2.cm.utexas.edu
chm@emx.utexas.edu

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