How to delete files with specical characters in the name?

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Hi,

I've got an odd situation here.  Somehow, I find myself with two files that 
start with the - character.
[eric@apollo mysql]$ ls -l
total 93348
-rw-r--r--  1 mysql mysql  9273344 Nov 13 19:03 -N=2007-11-08
-rw-r--r--  1 mysql mysql 38879232 Nov 13 19:02 --newer=2007-11-08


Don't ask how they were created; something went wrong with a script at some 
point.

My problem is that I am trying to delete them, but can't figure out how to 
delete these files.  Everything I try, I get the same msg:
[eric@apollo mysql]$ rm '-N=2007-11-08'
rm: invalid option -- N
Try `rm --help' for more information.


I have tried single quotes, double quotes, escaping it with a \ and still 
get the same error.

Any ideas / suggestions?

Thanks!

Eric



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