The other day I had this file (-rw-r--r--) created under strange and unknown circumstances. If you treat it as "normal" file, you will get error messages.
There are many ways to deal with such files/directories but the quickest way is to give the full path or the path from the current location. In other words, to put /full/path/ or ./ in front of it:
shell@gz:~$ ls -la total 0 drwxr-xr-x 2 root system 4096 Nov 03 09:00 . drwxr-xr-x 4 root system 256 Jul 19 14:04 .. -rw-r--r--- 1 root system 0 Nov 02 16:30 -rw-r--r--
Fail:
shell@gz:~$ rm -f '-rw-r--r--' rm: Not a recognized flag: w Usage: rm [-firRe] [--] File... shell@gz:~$ ls -la "-rw-r--r--" ls: Not a recognized flag: w ls: Not a recognized flag: - ls: Not a recognized flag: - ls: Not a recognized flag: - ls: Not a recognized flag: - ls: Not a recognized flag: - Usage: ls [-1ACFHLNRSabcdefgiklmnopqrstuxEUX] [File...]
Success:
shell@gz:~$ ls -la ./-rw-r--r-- -rw-r--r-- 1 root system 0 Nov 02 16:30 ./-rw-r--r-- shell@gz:~$ rm ./-rw-r--r-- shell@gz:~$ ls -la ./-rw-r--r-- ls: 0653-341 The file ./-rw-r--r-- does not exist.
