How to remove files starting with double hyphen?

by 
rm -- --testings.html

The -- option tells rm to treat all further arguments as file names, not as options, even if they start with -.

This isn’t particular to the rm command. The getopt function implements it, and many (all?) UNIX-style commands treat it the same way: -- terminates option processing, and anything after it is a regular argument.

http://www.gnu.org/software/hello/manual/libc/Using-Getopt.html#Using-Getopt

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