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 To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: Michael Pfeiffer Subject: How to delete file "nul"? Date: Fri, 2 Jul 2004 09:29:02 +0000 (UTC) Lines: 20 Message-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org User-Agent: Loom/3.14 (http://gmane.org/) X-Loom-IP: 193.186.173.115 (Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1) Opera 7.23 [en]) 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 -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/