You could list by inode, then use find with rm.
# ls -i
7223 -O
# find . -inum 7223 -exec rm {} \;
David
On 11/23/11 2:00 PM, "Jason King (Gmail)" <jason.brian.k...@gmail.com>
wrote:
> Did you try rm -- filename ?
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On Nov 23, 2011, at 1:43 PM, Harry Putnam <rea...@newsguy.com> wrote:
>
>> Somehow I touched some rather peculiar file names in ~. Experimenting
>> with something I've now forgotten I guess.
>>
>> Anyway I now have 3 zero length files with names -O, -c, -k.
>>
>> I've tried as many styles of escaping as I could come up with but all
>> are rejected like this:
>>
>> rm \-c
>> rm: illegal option -- c
>> usage: rm [-fiRr] file ...
>>
>> Ditto for:
>>
>> [\-]c
>> '-c'
>> *c
>> '-'c
>> \075c
>>
>> OK, I'm out of escapes. or other tricks... other than using emacs but
>> I haven't installed emacs as yet.
>>
>> I can just ignore them of course, until such time as I do get emacs
>> installed, but by now I just want to know how it might be done from a
>> shell prompt.
>>
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