[OT] Linux snafoo

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silly linux, 'del' is for windows!

please forgive me, I'm very new to Linux and this may be a trivial issue, but I
was wondering if
those of you fluent in this wonderful OS could help me... somehow, probably by
my own mistake,
tar ran into an error, and left a file called "-xvz.tgz" and when I try to rm
it, I get an
error..

rm: invalid option -- x

how do I delete this file? (mv returns the same error) obviously it thinks I'm
trying to pass a
parameter, not a file name

~Greg
g.haberek at comcast.net

PS: logging in as root doesn't help..

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