[bug #25946] mv/cp/ls/cd cannot cope with leading dash (-) in directory names without path

[Hendrick Musche]

URL:
  <http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?25946>

                 Summary: mv/cp/ls/cd cannot cope with leading dash (-) in
directory names without path
                 Project: GNU Core Utilities
            Submitted by: hmu
            Submitted on: Fr 20 Mär 2009 22:43:15 GMT
                Category: None
                Severity: 3 - Normal
              Item Group: None
                  Status: None
                 Privacy: Public
             Assigned to: None
             Open/Closed: Open
         Discussion Lock: Any

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Details:

Probably just a minor bug, thought I'd file it anyway. I just stumbled upon
the error that I couldn't cd oder ls in a directory named "- test -". Any
attempt with quotation marks or escaping the dash fails with:
~$ cd "- test -"
bash: cd: - : invalid option
cd: usage: cd [-L|-P] [dir]

However, if used with a path, it works ok:
~$ cd "./- test -"
~/- test -$

Is this intended? I know its a bit lazy leaving the path away, but it did
took me quite a while to figure it out.

btw, this is with coreutils 6.10 on ubuntu jaunty.

Sincerely,
Hendrick






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