Nicolas Alvarez wrote:

>> ["This makes it read from a file. Unless the file is named '-', in 
>> which case it reads from stdin." OK, so how do I make it read from a 
>> file that's actually named '-' then? And other surprising ad-hoc 
>> behaviours...]
> 
> ./-

OK. But it now means that if you write a script that does this, you need 
to explicitly check whether the file you're going to process just 
happens to be called "-" and manually escape it if it is. And just 
think, if you didn't realise that, your script might be used for *years* 
before somebody tries to use it in that specific way and makes it crash 
spectacularly.

Urg. Anyways...

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