Ugly File Name (Correction)

[John Stafford]

Another vote for an "often asked questions" document...

To remove a file that begins with - in the current directory (say
-whatever for example)

   rm ./-whatever

should always be good, for that matter you could get verbose and say
from anywhere (as appropriate)

   rm /place/otherplace/somewhere/here/-whatever

in many places

   rm -- -whatever

works and

   rm - -whatever

is rumored to work some places, but I've never used a system where it
did (or at least was documented to).