Unable to remove a file which have a name like a command argument

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Published on 2014-06-12T08:47:04Z Indexed on 2014/06/12 9:41 UTC
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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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