Kerstin Hoef-Emden wrote:
  >I tried
  >rm "-gzip" 
  >rm ´-gzip´
  >rm \-gzip
  >
  >None of these worked.
  >
  >What is the trick? (There must be one ...)

rm -- -gzip

The -- tells rm to stop interpreting arguments as options.

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