From: Kerry Person (kperson@plains.NoDak.edu)
Date: 08/08/93 

From: kperson@plains.NoDak.edu (Kerry Person)
Subject: Re: [Q] How to delete file with invalid name?
Date: 8 Aug 1993 16:07:29 GMT

In article <930808.005835.3w0.rusnews.w165w@whiffer.mese.com> jgeorge@whiffer.mese.com (Joe George) writes:
>...I now have a file called "-u -v" in /usr/lib/uucp. Yes,
>dash-u-space-dash-v. I can't delete it.

Try:

$ rm -i *v

(be SURE to use the -i [interactive] flag!)
Then answer 'y' or 'n' as it prompts whether you want to remove each matching
file.