cd into a badly named directory? How?

[jols]

I am trying to cd into a directory named exactly this:

---------- 2_files

Of course the action gets two dashes in and responds with an invalid optioin error.

Any ideas?

[kernow]

Try changing its name first;
#mv ---------- 2_files two_files

[verdon]

or try putting the name in quotes i.e.
cd "---------- 2_files"

[zack6924]

or cd -*2_files

[chirpy]

Another trick is to keep using <TAB> to complete the command line which will usually backslash as needed. Simplest is probably to use SFTP