Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sources.redhat.com From: Dario Alcocer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15102.44024.574071.343134@coyote.priv.helixdigital.com> Date: Sun, 13 May 2001 08:44:56 -0700 To: Andrew Petchonov Cc: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: colon got in file name -> can't delete! In-Reply-To: <1941038643.20010511214436@yahoo.com> References: <1941038643.20010511214436@yahoo.com> X-Mailer: VM 6.76 under 21.1 (patch 12) "Channel Islands" XEmacs Lucid >>>>> "Andrew" == Andrew Petchonov writes: Andrew> Hello , Description of the problem: A file with colon in Andrew> the name was created successfully from cygwin, I can't Andrew> delete it neither from cygwin nor from NT. If you know Andrew> how to delete it please drop me a line. I'm not sure if this would work, but maybe you could try: $ rm .cachedmetrics.?0.0 This way, you don't reference the problematic colon directly. -- Dario Alcocer -- Sr. Software Developer, Helix Digital Inc. alcocer@helixdigital.com -- http://www.helixdigital.com -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Check out: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple