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: <417E09CE.2050005@schoenhaber.de> Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2004 10:24:46 +0200 From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Markus_Sch=F6nhaber?= Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.8 (Windows/20041009) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: nul References: <1981E79C7C98A547B36D794FBEC5337002968191@moscntx1.russia.intl.pepsi.com> In-Reply-To: <1981E79C7C98A547B36D794FBEC5337002968191@moscntx1.russia.intl.pepsi.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.86.1.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Mironov, Leonid {PBG} wrote: > Once when I felt particulary stupid, I've added redirection to 'nul' instead > of '/dev/null' to a program run from cygwin cron. Now I've got a file called > 'nul' on NTFS disk and can do nothing about it neither with windows tools > nor from cygwin shell. Not a big problem, but annoying. Any ideas on how to > get rid of it? > Assuming you created C:\some\path\nul using del \\.\C:\some\path\nul in the Windows console might help you to get rid of it. http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;315226 Regards mks -- 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/