weird file, how to remove it?

Question

I just check my external disk on ubuntu 16.04 and I saw a weird file '-v'.

I am trying to delete it but can not.

-rw-r--r--  1 root     root     671312164 Dec 29 16:10 -v

pls adive. thx

Answer 1

I did not have a problem removing such a file using

rm -f ./-v 

use the force option (-f) to ignore the message

rm: remove write-protected regular empty file './-v'? yes