Removing files with weird names

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In a shell type:

touch -- -rf

Now as yourself, "how do I delete it?"

Most GNU tools will accept '--' as an option. This tells the option parser to stop interpreting the arguments list as options. For example, to remove a file named "-rf" do this:

rm -- -rf