Subject: Re: bug#24294: Bug in mv, -- and - prefixes

From: Bernhard Voelker <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2016 20:28:27 +0200

On 08/23/2016 07:08 PM, Miku wrote:
> Hello
> 
> When doing "mv * dest_folder" and one of files in directory starts with 
> -- or - it sees that as an option.
> 
> For instance if one of files is named "-v" or "--version" then "mv * 
> dest_folder" would work like "mv -v * dest_folder" and "mv --version"

Besides the answer of Paul and Reuti, this is an FAQ (actually there are
several like these caused by shell file globbing around that):

http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/faq/coreutils-faq.html#I-have-a-file-_0027_002df_0027-and-it-affects-rm_002e

Have a nice day,
Berny