Nicolas Alvarez <nic### [at] gmailisthebestcom> wrote:
> 1. If the file is called -, you're calling for trouble anyway.

> 2. Whoever passes a filename to your script should be using the ./- thing.

  Many shellscripts break with file names with spaces in them. This is
because surprisingly few unix geeks know that in shell scripts you have
to use "$@" to refer to all the command-line arguments, not $*.

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                                                          - Warp

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