Not a very scalable solution, but if there is a file named -X where X is any option to rm, * will expand to catch it, and if illegal, rm will exit without doing

Not a very scalable solution, but if there is a file named -X where X is any option to rm, * will expand to catch it, and if illegal, rm will exit without doing anything. Someone taught me that in college back in the day (sequent/dynix).