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Question Removing a file from a directory

How do you remove a file named '-'? ('rm' does not work)
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Thumbs up removal of file "-"

Try the below command :

find . -type f -name "-" -exec rm {} \;

I have tried and it worked.
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ls -i -

find . -inum <<<inodenumber>>> -exec rm -i {} \;
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or more simply:

rm -- -

will work.

the double hyphen is useful for several commands; it basically informs that there are no more switches, but to treat the rest of input as args
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i m assuming, you are trying to remove '-'
rm -rf "'-'"
and if you are trying to remove -
then
rm -rf "-"

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