How to open a “-” dashed filename using terminal?
This approach can lead to misunderstandings because using a hyphen (-) as an argument typically refers to standard input (stdin) or standard output (stdout), such as /dev/stdin or /dev/stdout.
Therefore, if you want to open a file with a name like -, you need to specify the full path to the file, such as ./-.
For example, if you want to see the contents of a file named -, you would use cat ./-.
If you need to work with a file named "-" (dash) in the terminal, you can use nano ./- to edit it or cp ./- newfile to make a copy with a different name.
To open a file named “-” (dash) in the terminal, you can use the command cat ./- to display its contents.