Honestly, I've searched the forum, and maybe I'm not using the right search terms, but I can't find anything. I apologize if someone else finds it easily, but this is the biggest annoyance to me (and probably the smallest most insignificant thing to others lol)

I have a file in my /home/<user> directory named -q. I don't know why, and I don't know how.. probably a bad cp or mv command.

So, I'm sure you all know what the problem ends up being?

When I type rm -q... it tells me that -q is not a valid option for the rm command. I've tried everything that I can think of.. rm *q, rm '-q', rm * (it's the only file in the directory, there are other directories though.

Oh, and the kicker? This is Ubuntu Server, with no GUI installed

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks,
Jay

Read the man page of rm

it's a directory, I'm pretty sure that mean you need to use rm -r ./-q

blingham wrote:

Both commands suggested by Wim work. Thanks to blingham and Wim, got to learn something interesting.

Ok.. I feel dumb.. of all the places, I have to admit I didn't read the MAN page. Well, sorry for committing forums rule #1, which is obviously: "RTFM".

But thank you so much!

Since it was a file, rm -- -q worked perfectly!

Jay