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 Message-ID: From: Glen Coakley To: "'Andrew Petchonoff'" , cygwin@cygwin.com Cc: Dario Alcocer Subject: RE: colon got in file name -> can't delete! Date: Mon, 14 May 2001 11:04:31 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" If the name you created was "c:asdf" then next time try: rm "c?asdf" ________________________________ Glen Coakley, Sr. Software Engineer MQSoftware Inc., (763) 543-4845 > -----Original Message----- > From: Andrew Petchonoff [mailto:c00lt4lk@yahoo.com] > Sent: Monday, May 14, 2001 8:07 AM > To: cygwin@cygwin.com > Cc: Dario Alcocer > Subject: Re: colon got in file name -> can't delete! > > > Hi > > The problem is: Windows does not allow colons > in filenames. However, colons can be stored > on disk itself. And somehow cygwin managed > to write colon in filename to disk. > > The only way to delete the file was > to run ntfsdos utility (available from > sysinternals.com) from DOS to access > the NTFS volume and delete the stupid file. > Thanks everyone for your responses. > > Regards, > Andrew > > --- Dario Alcocer wrote: > > >>>>> "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 > > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Auctions - buy the things you want at great prices > http://auctions.yahoo.com/ > > -- > Want to unsubscribe from this list? > Check out: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple > -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Check out: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple