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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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