Delete files with backslash in linux

Question

By mistake I created a file which a name using a backslash \:

>ls -l

total 0

-rw-rw---- 1 user group  0 Jul  3 21:34 \

How to delete it?

Answer 1

To pass a \ in the argument to the command, you just need to "quote" or "escape" it, you can do it by wrapping it with single-quotes:

rm '\'

or by prefixing it with another backslash:

rm \\

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