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From: "Dave Korn" <dk AT artimi DOT com>
To: "'Cygwin Mail List'" <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: RE: Can't delete file
Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2004 15:51:32 -0000
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X-OriginalArrivalTime: 19 Jan 2004 15:51:32.0400 (UTC) FILETIME=[1C1A6300:01C3DEA4]

 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of Aurangzeb M. Agha

> Thanks for the suggestion Kleven, but neither did the suggestion below
> work:
> 
> C:\TEMP\downloads\nutch-2003-11-17\www.greece101.com>dir /x  

  Here, maybe this will work: try shortening the overlong path by doing
something like this:

---snip---
C:
cd \temp\downloads
ren nutch-2003-11-17 x
move x \
cd \x
ren www.greece101.com y
cd \x\y
del wctpro~1.act
---snip---

so that the file ends up being called C:\x\y\wctPropInfo(...snip!); with a
bit of luck, reducing the
"C:\TEMP\downloads\nutch-2003-11-17\www.greece101.com" path part of the
filename to "C:\x\y" might make the overall filename enough shorter to fit
within the maximum path length.  It does seem as if, because Bash feels the
need to escape all the embedded equals, ampersand, and at signs:

>$ rm
>wctPropInfo.action\@lid\=1\&slid\=40\&product\=Hotel\&type\=PropertyInf
>ormat
>ion\&lang\=ENG\&af
>filiateId\=10006093\&hotelId\=10214537\&include\=OVERVIEW\&did\=14\&num
>berAd
>ults\=1\&numberRooms\=1
>\&dateSelected\=false\&needDates\=Y\&debugXML\=false
>rm: cannot remove
>`wctPropInfo DOT action AT lid=1&slid=40&product=Hotel&type=PropertyInformatio
>n&lan
>g=ENG&
>affiliateId=10006093&hotelId=10214537&include=OVERVIEW&did=14&numberAdu
>lts=1
>&numberRooms=1&dateSelec
>ted=false&needDates=Y&debugXML=false': File or path name too long

that what might otherwise be a legit pathname is becoming too long.


    cheers, 
      DaveK
-- 
Can't think of a witty .sigline today....
 


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