On Mon, 2008-10-20 at 16:09 +0100, Hakan Koseoglu wrote: > Hi Craig, > > Craig White wrote: > > I cannot figure this out... > > > > I would like to change the owner of a bunch of folders whose name begins > > with a dash... > > When you are using shell commands, if you use double-dash, you don't > need to escape it. > > [root at red ~]# mkdir -- "-test" > [root at red ~]# chown oracle -- -test > [root at red ~]# ls -ld -- -test > drwxr-xr-x 2 oracle root 4096 Oct 20 16:01 -test > > -- stops the commands continuing the parsing the parameters as options. ---- I may have known that somewhere in the recesses of my mind Thanks - solved Craig