[NTLUG:Discuss] remove file

[Steve Baker]

To add to what others have already said:  The fun and games really
start when the garbage filename starts with a '-' because then 'rm'
thinks the filename is a commandline option.

The simplest thing in that case (and in most other cases of crazily
screwed up filenames actually) is to use a GUI-based tool like
midnight commander ('mc') to delete it.

However, if you really want to do it with a command line tool:

     rm -- -whatever

...will remove a file called '-whatever' without saying:

     rm: invalid option -- w

...as it usually would.

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