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Date: Thu, 27 May 2004 11:39:22 -0400
From: Volker Quetschke <quetschke AT scytek DOT de>
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Subject: Re: redirection can create nul files - Was: rm hangs on illegal filename nul
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Hi Igor,

> A couple more datapoints:
> 
> - You can also create "nul" by "touch nul".
> - You can use forward slashes, so "rm //./c:/somedir/nul" works.
> - For me (on Win2k SP3), "rm nul" doesn't hang, but doesn't do anything
>   either.
Here neither, but "rm -rf somedir" hangs.

Volker

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