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That was the question I asked myself recently when I had a file called --exclude in the root of my filesystem. These commands all failed:

rm --exclude
rm "--exclude"
rm \-\-exclude
rm ??exclude

So I found the solution - so simple it embarrassed me. Just add the full path:

rm /--exclude

or tell the command line parser to stop interpreting options:

rm -- --exclude

Easy!