linux – How to open a – dashed filename using terminal?

linux – How to open a – dashed filename using terminal?

This type of approach has a lot of misunderstanding because using – as an argument refers to STDIN/STDOUT i.e dev/stdin or dev/stdout .So if you want to open this type of file you have to specify the full location of the file such as ./- .For eg. , if you want to see what is in that file use cat ./-

Both cat < - and ./- command will give you the output

linux – How to open a – dashed filename using terminal?

you can use redirection

cat < -file_name