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From:	Danilo Turina <danilo DOT turina AT alcatel DOT it>
Subject:	Re: How to delete file "nul"?
Date:	Fri, 02 Jul 2004 12:13:41 +0200
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Please search the list archives before asking for something:

	http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2004-06/msg01235.html

(it's a message of 3 days ago).
Ciao,

		Danilo

Michael Pfeiffer wrote:

> Hi
> 
> bash allows to pipe to a file named "nul" e.g.:
> echo test > nul
> 
> bash-2.05b$ ls -l
> total 1
> -rwxrwxrwx    1 pfeiffer mkgroup-        4 Jul  2 10:00 nul
> 
> The problem is that this file can not be deleted.
> I was not able to delete it using the "rm" command in
> bash, or "del" in a windows command line or the
> windows explorer.
> 
> Any idea how this file can be deleted, without
> booting an alternative OS?
> 
> 
> Regards,
> Michael
> 
> 


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