How do I deal with a filename that starts with the hyphen (-) character?

Question

Somehow, at some point, I accidentally created a file in my home directory named \'-s\'. It is about 500 kb and I have no idea if it contains important data or not. I cannot

Answer 1

besides using rm, if you know a language, you can also use them. They are not affected by such shell warts.

Ruby(1.9+)

$ ruby -rfileutils -e 'FileUtils.rm("-s")'

or

$ ruby -e 'File.unlink("-s")'