On Sat, 08 Mar 2008 19:16:28 +0000, Orchid XP v7 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...]

(a) you don't name a file '-' because it's got a special meaning to the 
shell, or 

(b) you escape the filename.

Jim

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