[ltp] Help Needed

[Richard Neill]

Jan Kundrát wrote:
> Richard Neill wrote:
>> Out of curiosity, why use mc at all?  It's much quicker to use
>> rm,mv,cp,ln,cd etc directly from the shell, especially if you have
>> bash_completion enabled.
> 
> Dealing with files whose name starts with a minus sign is a PITA. 

Ah. What you do is:         mv ./-file1 file2
  or    mv  -- -file1 file2

The first ./  trick means "the current directory".
The second --  means  "end of option processing"

And
> you sometimes want that fancy progress bar :).
> 

fair point.


Richard