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Re: CVS download problem
Quoting Jeffrey Stephens:
> I just downloaded Scheme from the CVS website at
> www.cs.utah.edu/plt/anoncvs/
> In previous downloads from this site CVS always created the directory
> "plt" and
> downloaded all files into it. Now a directory named "-P" is created
> instead.
What CVS client are you using? (Apparently, it has a different set of
command-line flags than the ones I use.)
> I suppose
> I should know this, but how do I 'mv', 'cp', or 'rm' a directory that
> begins with a '-'? I
> tried the obvious by enclosing -P in single and double quotes but
> neither works.
"mv -- -P <newname>" will probably work.
Thanks,
Matthew