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Subject:	RE: deleting a file ending with a dot
Date:	Fri, 16 Jan 2004 15:07:41 +0100
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Your answer confirms my assumption that there are hidden chars trailing the dot: try ls -q cachedmetrics* and use the result to delete...


> -----Original Message-----
> From: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com 
> [mailto:cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com]On Behalf
> Of Baurjan Ismagulov
> Sent: Friday, January 16, 2004 2:53 PM
> To: cygwin AT sources DOT redhat DOT com
> Subject: Re: deleting a file ending with a dot
> 
> 
> Hello, David!
> 
> On Fri, Jan 16, 2004 at 12:05:31PM -0000, Dave Korn wrote:
> >   Maybe there's a problem with the perms on it?  What 
> output do you get from
> > "ls -la file." and from "cacls file." ?
> 
> ls: cachedmetrics.: No such file or directory
> 
> I don't have cacls installed, but getfacl also says "No such file or
> directory".
> 
> 
> >   BTW, this would have been a better bug report...
> 
> I'm afraid that this is a Windows feature :) -- to be able to create
> files and then not to be able to work with them :/ .
> 
> 
> > ... if you had told us what
> > actually *happened* when you tried all those things - did 
> you get error
> > messages?  Did unlink return an error code?  Or did just 
> nothing happen?  Or
> > did your machine BSOD and start smoke pouring out the back? 
>  Knowing what
> > happened is the first clue to start working out what went 
> wrong, you see.
> 
> Thanks for the tip :) . All programs said that they cannot find such a
> file. Unlink returned ENOENT. When I click on "Properties", 
> there is no
> file name in the window.
> 
> 
> With kind regards,
> Baurjan.
> 
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