How to remove files with special characters in Linux

Solution 1

To remove a file with dashes, slashes or other special characters, the easiest way is to access the file using its inode. To get the inode of a file, just do a ls -li. When you have that number, use find to delete the file using the following command:

find . -inum [inode] -exec rm -i {} \;

Solution 2

To remove a file whose name starts with a `-‘, for example `-foo', use one of these commands:

rm --- -foo
rm ./-foo

so,

$ rm --- -\,my\?\ funky.file\$name

Via Johnny chadda

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