how to delete a file?

[Barry Byrne]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org 
> [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Jack Raats

> Due to an error I made the following file
> 
> - -rw-r--r--  1 jos  jos    0 Nov 19 15:34 -----
> - -rw-r--r--  1 jos  jos  767 Nov 19 15:39 .cshrc
> drwx------  3 jos  jos  512 Nov 19 15:40 .imap
> 
> How to delete the ----- file
> rm "-----" doesnot work (even with root access)

Jack:

rm -- "-----"

should do the trick.

 - barry