How to remove files with special characters

Question

How to remove a file(s) with strange name in ubuntu?

I used ssh-keygen, I think I copied the command line with the linebreak at the end and created two files with a very strange file name.

https://ibb.co/0mC5fMj

Try to delete

rm \'\'$\'r\'

But result:

rm: cannot remove ''\'''\''$'\''r'\''': No such file or directory

Answer 1

• Try to add -- at the beginning of the file name.

$ rm -v -- #file
$ rm -v -- "#file"

• Try to add ./ at the beginning of the file name.

$ rm -v ./#file

• If the previous tips do not work, you can still remove it using the inode number with:

ls -li

output:

5133242 -rw-r--r-- 1 user #*%/file

then using find

$ find . -inum 5133242 -delete