Re: weird file name

[Dave Mielke]

On Wed, 21 Oct 1998, C.J. Oster wrote:
>I have this file named "-\" and I cannot get rid of it.

You have to deal, in addition to the backslash, with the leading minus
sign. Use a double minus sign "--" to terminate the option list, and
single quote the file name to get rid of the special meaning of the
backslash. Try:

    rm -- '-\'

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