I've written this down somewhere before but ...
I have a file that I created, by mistake, by abusing the target during a scp command
ls -altrc
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2541 Feb 2 02:15 '~'
and I wanted to delete it - but it has weird characters in the file name
This to the rescue: -
rm -v -- '~'
removed '~'