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 To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com From: zzapper Subject: Re: How to delete rogue nul files Date: Wed, 21 Jul 2004 18:50:53 +0100 Lines: 37 Message-ID: <65btf0146rhs3cv5io36oid3nm42k09una@4ax.com> References: <35atf01b6fdevp0faov9lfri78firrk86j AT 4ax DOT com> <6 DOT 1 DOT 0 DOT 6 DOT 0 DOT 20040721132749 DOT 0338fc98 AT pop DOT prospeed DOT net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet AT sea DOT gmane DOT org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: cpc3-oxfd4-4-0-cust194.oxfd.cable.ntl.com X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent 1.93/32.576 English (American) X-IsSubscribed: yes On Wed, 21 Jul 2004 13:28:30 -0400, wrote: >At 01:32 PM 7/21/2004, you wrote: >>On Wed, 21 Jul 2004 18:14:45 +0100, wrote: >> >> >>>> >>>> I recently seem to be leaving nul files around my file system >>>> which I cannot delete from Cyg or Win >>>> >>>> Hilfe mich! >>> >> >>> >>>DEL \\.\c:\somedir\nul >>> >>> cheers, >>> DaveK >> >>no luck >> >>C:\inetpub\wwwdev\www.planet.com>del nul >>The filename, directory name, or volume label syntax is incorrect. > > >Use the syntax Dave suggested and you'll have better luck. Larry That zeroed the file, but it's still undeletable. But what is that wierd delete syntax?? zzapper (vim, cygwin, wiki & zsh) -- vim -c ":%s/^/WhfgTNabgureRIvzSUnpxre/|:%s/[R-T]/ /Ig|:normal ggVGg?" http://www.vim.org/tips/tip.php?tip_id=305 Best of Vim Tips -- 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/