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From: zzapper <david AT tvis DOT co DOT uk>
Subject: Re: How to delete rogue nul files
Date: Thu, 22 Jul 2004 11:25:44 +0100
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Hi,
I would like to declare this the NUL-est thread ever, and would like to thank you NUL-experts for
your NUL-help.

Seriously I've now learnt how to delete those pesky undeletable windows files namely

DEL \\.\c:\somedir\nul


or delinvfile.exe (google for this utility)

And also the conundrum that ls -l nul will ALWAYS list a file
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


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