Unable to remove a file which have a name like a command argument
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By inadvertance, I've created a file called -r
into my home directory.
Please don't ask me how and why, I don't recall.
But the fact is that now I cannot get rid of it :
rm -rf
rm: missing operand
Try 'rm --help' for more information.
Other try :
rm /-/r
rm: cannot remove ‘/-/r’: No such file or directory
Another one :
rm \-r
rm: missing operand
Try 'rm --help' for more information.
Is there a way to remove this file without deleting the whole directory ?
Thanks.
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