Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Message-Id: <5.1.0.14.2.20020323134207.023b7ec0@pop3.cris.com> X-Sender: rrschulz AT pop3 DOT cris DOT com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.1 Date: Sat, 23 Mar 2002 13:49:52 -0800 To: Hongxun Lee , cygwin AT cygwin DOT com From: Randall R Schulz Subject: Re: how to del files named #???# In-Reply-To: <002b01c1d2b2$62ecc3e0$2c961a18@alleluja> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Hongxun, [ This is not Cygwin-specific--it can occur on any Unix/Linux/POSIX system. ] Oh, but they can be removed using "rm." Cd to the directory in which the problematic files reside and issue this command: % rm -i * You will be presented with a prompt for each file in the directory. If you type a "y" the file will be removed. Other responses will leave the file in place. If the entire directory consists of such unwanted files, you can cd to the parent dir and use "rm -fr" to eradicate the directory and all its contents without being prompted. This approach does not require shell pattern matching, so sometimes (for some kinds of file names and / or on some systems) it works when the previous suggestion does not. Randall Schulz Mountain View, CA USA At 13:33 2002-03-23, hongxun lee wrote: >I dont know why such files were produced, and they cant be del with >command rm. Thanks -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/