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		IsTom on Sept 24, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: OpenBSD now enforcing no invalid NUL characters in... You can also create files named e.g. '--help' (if you're not particularly malicious) and with globbing it'll cause e.g. 'ls *' to print help.

jasonjayr on Sept 24, 2024 [–]

    touch -- '-f ..'

(If you want to lay an evil trap)

Remember that in most option parsing libraries, putting '--' in your arguments stops option parsing, so you can safely run:

    rm -- '-f ..'

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