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Re: Handling special characters (\/:*?"<>|) gracefully
- From: Brian Dessent <brian at dessent dot net>
- To: The Cygwin-Talk Maiming List <cygwin-talk at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Wed, 24 May 2006 03:45:42 -0700
- Subject: Re: Handling special characters (\/:*?"<>|) gracefully
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Dave Korn wrote:
> Well, the /real/ problem about those files (which matched DOS special device
> names) was that you couldn't remove them from cygwin either; not being able to
> delete them from the very same command shell where you created them is far
> worse than having to use the same tool to delete something that you used to
> create it.
You can create and delete them fine from Cygwin using the native path
(touch '//?/c:/nul') but that wasn't very intuitive.
Brian