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One guy said his preferred method was to cd up and nuke the whole directory.
Wow.
The method I learned, and used when helping my coworker, was the `--` option to `rm`.
Nowadays `rm` seems to detect this and gives a help text:
$ rm -testfile
rm: invalid option -- 't'
Try 'rm ./-testfile' to remove the file '-testfile'.
Try 'rm --help' for more information.
This option is included in this article
which is high up on the search result for "linux remove file starting with dash".
Then there's this "creative" solution:
There are some characters that you cannot remove using any of the above methods, such as forward slashes, interpreted by Unix as directory separators. To remove a file with such meta-characters, you may have to FTP into the account containing the file from a separate account and enter the command:
`mdel`
You will be asked if you really wish to delete each file in the directory. Be sure to answer n (for no) for each file except the file containing the difficult character that you wish to delete.
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