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From: John Wiersba <John DOT Wiersba AT medstat DOT com>
To: "'mh AT mike DOT franken DOT de'" <mh AT mike DOT franken DOT de>, cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com
Subject: RE: broken 'ln' behavior
Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2000 14:59:17 -0400
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: mh AT mike DOT franken DOT de [mailto:mh AT mike DOT franken DOT de]
>
> >Is there a way to delete a hard link named x. (2 characters)?
> 
> Only way I found was the Posix subsystem. Interix 2.2 in my case - I
> suppose, any Posix subsystem will do the job, though.
> 
> Ran Interix ksh und rm'ed the file "a."!

From another cygwin newsgroup thread, I found that the following works from
bash:
   rm '\\?\d:\dir1\dir2\x.' 

-- John 

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