Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Message-ID: <40B5FE65.5080609@scytek.de> Date: Thu, 27 May 2004 10:42:45 -0400 From: Volker Quetschke User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.6 (Windows/20040502) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: redirection can create nul files - Was: rm hangs on illegal filename nul References: <40B5F6EB.5030200@scytek.de> In-Reply-To: <40B5F6EB.5030200@scytek.de> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.84.0.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="------------enig060F7AD36D5C498A1A1EE547" X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-1.2.2 (mrelay3.uni-hannover.de [130.75.2.41]); Thu, 27 May 2004 16:42:51 +0200 (MEST) X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.42 X-IsSubscribed: yes --------------enig060F7AD36D5C498A1A1EE547 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Just FYI and for the archives: > Any ideas how to remove the nul files? Really, I don't want to > format my disk because of this. You can fool NTFS into not doing reserve-word checking with: DEL \\.\c:\somedir\nul You propably have to use the correct quotes, or use cmd.exe, like I did. Volker -- PGP/GPG key (ID: 0x9F8A785D) available from wwwkeys.de.pgp.net key-fingerprint 550D F17E B082 A3E9 F913 9E53 3D35 C9BA 9F8A 785D --------------enig060F7AD36D5C498A1A1EE547 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFAtf5lPTXJup+KeF0RAmVGAJ9df8f4m+VKhBemrvvm/LY8eMSrDgCgoR34 Tn0QjiDy7l6du3XOzp+wtFA= =roNt -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enig060F7AD36D5C498A1A1EE547--