How to remove this file?
 

There's a file named "-X", I can not remove it, please help!

I already tried these:

rm -rf -X
rm -rf "-X"
rm -rf \-X
rm -rf "-"X
rm -rf /-\X
rm -rf /-/X

Oh, I get it,
rm -- -X

'rm *X' maybe?

regards,
...drkstr

yeah, rm -- -X
is the way

soule

The other classic is the files that Emacs creates when you exit in a hurry:

#myfile#

Those are fun to try to delete :p

Actually I did that yesterday and typing

rm # (tab)

immediately gave this

rm \#

Dennisk

Yeah, ain't Bash completion grand? :p

You can usually -- usually! -- remove files like that with

rm ./-X

Now, that's sh and ksh but it ought to work in any sh-like shell...

You can also delete these by encasing the filename in double quotes, i.e.

$ rm "#myfile#".

You have to be the first person I've ever seen to figure this out on their own. Kudos to you. :)

really?

the man page says it quite plainly