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24.0.92; ! in dired on a file starting with a hyphen

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Message #61 received at 10458 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
Cc: michael_heerdegen <at> web.de, 10458 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, monnier <at> IRO.UMontreal.CA
Subject: Re: bug#10458: 24.0.92; ! in dired on a file starting with a hyphen
Date: Sun, 20 Feb 2022 16:40:18 +0200

> From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
> Cc: monnier <at> IRO.UMontreal.CA,  michael_heerdegen <at> web.de,  10458 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Sun, 20 Feb 2022 15:31:56 +0100
> 
> But note that it doesn't replace "bar" with "./bar" -- it only does this
> if the file name starts with "-".

Sure.  Which is why the problems will be rare and subtle.

Btw, the "usual" way of telling a program "all arguments from here on
are not options" is to use "--".

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