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

[Micah Cowan]

Follow-up Comment #1, bug #25946 (project coreutils):

cd -- "- test -"

should also work fine.

This is not only expected behavior for cd and ls, but for virtually any
command on a Unix-style system. Arguments that begin with a "-" are
interpreted as strings of options (think of "ls -ltc"), so cd (via the getopt
library function) believes you are trying to pass it a string of options that
includes (among other things) the space character. That's why the special "--"
argument exists: it tells getopt to treat any following arguments as true
program arguments, and not as options.

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