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From: Dario Alcocer <alcocer AT helixdigital DOT com>
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Message-ID: <15102.44024.574071.343134@coyote.priv.helixdigital.com>
Date: Sun, 13 May 2001 08:44:56 -0700
To: Andrew Petchonov <c00lt4lk AT yahoo DOT com>
Cc: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: colon got in file name -> can't delete!
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>>>>> "Andrew" == Andrew Petchonov <c00lt4lk AT yahoo DOT com> writes:

    Andrew> Hello , Description of the problem: A file with colon in
    Andrew> the name was created successfully from cygwin, I can't
    Andrew> delete it neither from cygwin nor from NT.  If you know
    Andrew> how to delete it please drop me a line.

I'm not sure if this would work, but maybe you could try:

    $ rm .cachedmetrics.?0.0

This way, you don't reference the problematic colon directly.

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Dario Alcocer -- Sr. Software Developer, Helix Digital Inc.
alcocer AT helixdigital DOT com -- http://www.helixdigital.com

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