Unix problem

[Frank B. Mostek]

wangjw at cs.purdue.EDU (Jingwen Wang) writes:

>  I was using the X-window and somehow generated some garbage files. I
>cannot remove some files because these files are named "-C", "-f" etc.
>Can someone tell me how to remove these garbages? 

Use the find command:
                                                    
find . -name "-C" -exec rm -f {} \;

I am not sure why this works and
rm -f "-C" does not work.

Any insights?
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