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Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2004 10:24:46 +0200
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Mironov, Leonid {PBG} wrote:
> Once when I felt particulary stupid, I've added redirection to 'nul' instead
> of '/dev/null' to a program run from cygwin cron. Now I've got a file called
> 'nul' on NTFS disk and can do nothing about it neither with windows tools
> nor from cygwin shell. Not a big problem, but annoying. Any ideas on how to
> get rid of it?
> 
Assuming you created
C:\some\path\nul
using
del \\.\C:\some\path\nul
in the Windows console might help you to get rid of it.

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;315226

Regards
mks

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