[ale] how do i remove this file?

[krum at smyrnacable.net (Kevin Krumwiede)]

rm ./-U

Incidentally, creating a file called -X or something is a nice way of
protecting a directory from accidental rm -rf *.


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Chris Bergeron [mailto:cbergeron at bassemail.com]
> Sent: Thursday, December 20, 2001 2:34 PM
> To: 'Ale'
> Subject: [ale] how do i remove this file?
>
>
> wget created a file named:  -U on my ext2fs and I can't delete it.  Any
> suggestions?  When I try to:  rm -rf "-U"   I get invalid option -U ???
>
> TIA,
> CB
>
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