How can I remove a file "--remove-files"?

Question

I tested:

rm \-\-remove-files

but I am unable to remove it. How can I do it?

Answer 1

rm -- --remove-files

Answer 2

$ ls -lah -- --remove-files 
-rw-r--r--  1 xistence  xistence     0B May  4 19:29 --remove-files
$ rm -- --remove-files 
$ ls -lah -- --remove-files 
ls: --remove-files: No such file or directory

So what you want is to use the -- as one of the arguments to rm, that means it stops processing getopt's, after that anything is taken literally:

rm -- --remove-files

Answer 3

rm ./--remove-files.

Note that -- isn't interpreted by the shell, and by extension, escaping it with \ will have no effect.

Answer 4

The solution is:

rm -- --remove-files

Source: http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/unix-linux-remove-strange-names-files/