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 X-Authentication-Warning: slinky.cs.nyu.edu: pechtcha owned process doing -bs Date: Fri, 2 Jul 2004 10:31:11 -0400 (EDT) From: Igor Pechtchanski Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com To: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?PLAN_Fr=E9d=E9ric_URS_Lyon?= cc: Michael Pfeiffer , cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: RE: How to delete file "nul"? In-Reply-To: <003901c46026$41742150$558a920a@lyon.francetelecom.fr> Message-ID: References: <003901c46026$41742150$558a920a AT lyon DOT francetelecom DOT fr> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.39 Fred, First off, . Secondly, if "rm" didn't work for the OP from the bash prompt, what makes you think it'll work from "find"? Oh, and you used the wrong "/" before the semicolon (which would thankfully make the below command invalid, because if it were valid, it would have deleted the root directory of Cygwin). As I've found out time and time again, it pays to actually try the commands yourself before sending them to the public list, and then cut-and-paste them to avoid the possibility of error. HTH, Igor On Fri, 2 Jul 2004, PLAN Frédéric URS Lyon wrote: > Hello, > > try this way : > > cd my_folder > find ./ -name "nul" -exec rm {} /; > > Fred > > > -----Message d'origine----- > De : cygwin-owner AT XXXXXX DOT XXX [mailto:cygwin-owner AT XXXXXX DOT XXX]De la part de Michael Pfeiffer > Envoye : vendredi 2 juillet 2004 11:29 > A : cygwin AT XXXXXX DOT XXX > Objet : How to delete file "nul"? > > Hi > > bash allows to pipe to a file named "nul" e.g.: > echo test > nul > > bash-2.05b$ ls -l > total 1 > -rwxrwxrwx 1 pfeiffer mkgroup- 4 Jul 2 10:00 nul > > The problem is that this file can not be deleted. > I was not able to delete it using the "rm" command in > bash, or "del" in a windows command line or the > windows explorer. > > Any idea how this file can be deleted, without > booting an alternative OS? > > Regards, > Michael -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ igor AT watson DOT ibm DOT com |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "I have since come to realize that being between your mentor and his route to the bathroom is a major career booster." -- Patrick Naughton -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/