RM delete file with special character

Posted under » Linux on 7 September 2010

I'm having problems deleting a folder with a special character. The folder (volume actually) "-n driven" will not remove from my directory. This is after I installed Tuxera's NTFS-3G on my mac.

Trick is to use "--". Any arguments after the -- are treated as file names and arguments. An argument of - is equivalent to --.

$ touch -- -123
$ ls -l -- -123
-rw-r--r--    1 abcdefgh g900            0 Dec 9 07:17 -123
$ rm  -- -123
$ ls -l -- -123
ls: -123: No such file or directory