trouble removing a weird file name

[mike worrell]

HI all,

Someone put a file name like this on our system and I can't remove it, tried rm -i * and it quits when it hits this one.
Here the example, it starts with a - sign.
example -Ptest_test.txt
Any ideas,
Thanks
Mike

[Uday_S_Ankolekar]

Try
rm -- -Ptest_test.txt

-USA..

[Marco Santerre]

have you tried doing
rm ./-Ptest_test.txt

[A. Clay Stephenson]

Easy,

We need to tell the rm command that there are no more options to process via the '--' argument.

rm -- -Ptest_test.txt
should do the trick.

[mike worrell]

thanks to all, that did it.

[James R. Ferguson]

Hi Mike:

# rm -- -Ptest_test.txt

...Note the double hyphen. This tells well-behaved Unix commands that there are no more flags (options).

# touch -- -me
# rm -i -- -me

Regards!

...JRF...

[Garry Ferguson]

I know this is really closed
but just to add my penny worth...

Use "ls -ali" to find the file's inode and then
"find . -inum -exec rm {} \;" to remove it.

Garry F

[RAC_1]

ls -ali -- to get file's inode no.
then
find . -imum inode_no -exec rm {} \;

[T G Manikandan]

The best option is using rm --

check the man pages of rm.

Also you can use

rm ./<-filename>