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Subject: Re: How to delete a file without owner and group?
Date: Tue, 02 Mar 2010 20:46:37 -0600
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On 3/2/2010 8:22 PM, Dave Korn wrote:

>
>    Cygwin can't override the permissions enforced by the OS.  It attempts to
> /use/ those permissions to model the posix user/group/world model, but if a
> file was created outside cygwin (i.e. in windows itself) there's no guarantee
> the permissions set on it will make sense in the posix world.

Then I've been lucky so far.  After transferring large directory trees 
over a network using Windows file sharing I frequently end up with a few 
files that I can't figure out how to delete under Windows, for some 
reason I can't fathom. The following, in a Cygwin script, fixes the problem:

find . -name '*' -print -exec chmod 777 {} \;

I routinely run Windows with administrative privileges.

I'm just a dumb engineer, not a programmer, and my simple viewpoint is 
that Cygwin is making my Windows box look like a sensible Unix system.


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