Recently while working in Linux, accidentally I created a folder named “–versionset”. I was quite a tuff task to delete the folder as this name is parsed as option to rm command. After searching a bit found a solution in stackoverflow to disable dashes during the parsing. Here is the command you need to use to remove a file starting with dashes.
rm -rf -- --versionset
— in the command deactivates the parsing the dashes in the file name.
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