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From:	John Wiersba <John DOT Wiersba AT medstat DOT com>
To:	"'earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com'" <earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com>,
	"'Thomas DOT Wolff AT icn DOT siemens DOT de'" <Thomas DOT Wolff AT icn DOT siemens DOT de>,
	cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com
Subject:	RE: 3 bugs
Date:	Tue, 18 Apr 2000 14:45:05 -0400
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Earnie Boyd [mailto:earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com]
> Sent: Tuesday, April 18, 2000 1:17 PM
> 
> Have you tried quoting techniques?
> 
> rm b\.
> rm "b."
> rm "b\."

Well, sort of.  

$ ls -li
total 0
20061687 -rw-r--r--   1 administ JRW             0 Apr 18 14:04 b
20061687 -rw-r--r--   1 administ JRW             0 Apr 18 14:04 b.
$ rm b
$ ls -li
ls: b.: No such file or directory
total 0
$ touch b
$ ls -li
total 0
20389367 -rw-r--r--   1 administ JRW             0 Apr 18 14:14 b
20389367 -rw-r--r--   1 administ JRW             0 Apr 18 14:14 b.

Note the different "inode" numbers.  Apparently, there is a directory entry
for b. which is pathologically linked to the name b (no dot).

-- John Wiersba

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