>Another common footgun is not including a double dash ('--') at the end of command options so that the following filename won't be interpreted as an option whe

>Another common footgun is not including a double dash ('--') at the end of command options so that the following filename won't be interpreted as an option when it begins with a dash. Yes. And if you have a file name that begins with a dash, and you want to delete it, you can use this command: $ rm -- -filename where -filename is that file. Here, the -- (double dash) means "end of the command-line options", so any argument after that is treated as a non-option argument, in this case, a filename for rm to delete. This -- (double dash) works with many Unix commands. It was introduced relatively early on in Unix history, after the issue of filenames starting with a dash was found. Although it is more likely that you would want to rename the file, to remove the dash from the name.