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I'm on CentOS 7.2 and I've somehow managed to create a folder called "-p". I can't seem to remove it now. I've tried the following:

rmdir -p rmdir "-p" rmdir \-p rmdir "\p"

It's probably simple, but I'm struggling.

I guess worst case I'll move anything out of the parent folder and go for a rm -rf

Many thanks

EDIT: just figured out the command that did it (and has done it again)

mkdir –p /etc/redis /var/redis

...I don't even

over 4 years ago · Santiago Trujillo

You can pass foldernames starting with hypens to mkdir and rmdir after a "double hypen". Here's an example:

$ ls -1
$ mkdir -- -p
$ ls -1
-p
$ rmdir -- -p
$ ls -1
$

over 4 years ago · Santiago Trujillo Report

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Accepted Answer · 2022-04-21T20:00:23.571Z

You could do:

rm ./-p

And depending on the rm used:

rm -- -p