How to remove files or directories files with names that contains spaces, and special characters such as -, -- @ <> etc

Remove file by an inode number
The -i option to ls displays the index number (inode) of each file:
 
ls -li

Use find command as follows to delete the file if the file has inode number 4063242:
 
$ find . -inum 4063242 -delete
OR
 
$ find . -inum 4063242 -exec rm -i {} \;
 
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