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: zzapper Subject: Re: How to delete rogue nul files Date: Wed, 21 Jul 2004 18:47:12 +0100 Lines: 21 Message-ID: References: <87smblfezy.fsf@offby1.atm01.sea.blarg.net> 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: cpc3-oxfd4-4-0-cust194.oxfd.cable.ntl.com X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent 1.93/32.576 English (American) X-IsSubscribed: yes On Wed, 21 Jul 2004 10:26:41 -0700, wrote: Eric I tried #!/usr/bin/env perl my $filename='nul'; if (unlink $filename) { print "Removed $filename.\n"; } else { warn "Can't unlink $filename: $!"; } Said it had deleted file but that was lie!! zzapper (vim, cygwin, wiki & zsh) -- vim -c ":%s/^/WhfgTNabgureRIvzSUnpxre/|:%s/[R-T]/ /Ig|:normal ggVGg?" http://www.vim.org/tips/tip.php?tip_id=305 Best of Vim Tips -- 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/