I have a file whose name is -q
(It looks like this is made by accident)
I want to see it’s content, so I tried these
$ cat '-q'
$ cat "-q"
$ cat $'-q'
But nothing worked.(All gives same error cat: invalid option -- 'q'
)
Is there any way to see it’s content?
to create a file named -q
do
touch -- "-q"
and to view its contents
cat -- '-q' # Used single quotes to treat anything inside as literal characters
should do it. --
means what follows should be treated as a positional parameter.
Pls take time to look at @rici's [ answer ] which reminds some substle aspects regarding single vs double quotes.