Zip files starting with an hypen

[Dustin Baer]

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Emanuele Salvador wrote:

> Can anybody
> please explain me if I have to use an escape character or something
> like that to work with this files?
>
> Thanks,
> Emanuele Salvador

Try using two hyphens before the zip file:

mv -- -whatever.zip whatever.zip

Dustin

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