Large -X directory

[Giorgos Keramidas]

On 2005-09-06 12:29, Robert Fitzpatrick <lists at webtent.net> wrote:
> I have a directory, no idea where it came from called '-X' and it has
> consumed my entire /home partition, now 10GB. Given the name, I am
> finding it hard to remove, how can I remove this file? I've been doing a
> lot of backup script testing on that devel server, so I am assuming it
> came from a bad run at this point with the -X option of tar placed
> incorrectly.

See the "NOTE" section of the rm(1) manpage, please.  This is a FAQ.
Prepending ./ to the name

	rm -r ./-X

should work fine.