Examine a folder named `-F/`

Question

I think this folder was probably created by accident at some point, but I can't ls or cd to it to check.

Things I have tried:

ls '-F'

ls "-F"

ls \-F

ls \\\-F

ls \\-F

and the cd equivalents

Answer 1

You can do it this way:

ls -lah -- -F

The -- denotes the end of options for the command, same will work with cd and even rm.

cd -- -F

and

rm -r -- -F

Answer 2

You can always specify the file as absolute or relative path instead of just the file name.

The simplest way is to just prefix it with a ./ to indicate it's in your current directory and avoid having the first character of the argument being a - that causes it to be treated as option/flag:

ls ./-F

This should work with basically every command that expects a file name or path as argument, even those which do not support the use of -- as argument separator.