I tried to compress a backup file via tar command on Linux (Oracle Enterprise Linux 8) but after the execution, i created a file named '--use-compress-program=pigz' by mistake.
The problem is, i can't delete this file with any of the commands. Tried commands below:
rm -rf '--use-compress-program=pigz'
rm -rf \'--use-compress-program=pigz\'
rm -rf *compress*
Any of these doesn't work. They all give errors below:
rm: unrecognized option ....
rm: cannot remove ... No such file or directory
Any suggestions on how to delete this file?
Edit:
[root@testserver backup]# find ./*use-compress-program* | od -c
0000000 . / - - u s e - c o m p r e s s
0000020 - p r o g r a m = p i g z \n
0000036
[root@testserver backup]# ls -l
total 330929080
-rw-r----- 1 root root 243887951248 Apr 20 08:34 backup.tar.gz
-rw------- 1 root root 93746165248 Apr 20 08:46 backup2.dmp
-rw-r----- 1 root root 293076992 Apr 19 16:52 '--use-compress-program=pigz'
