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Thanks Raffaello. That command ran a /long/ time but it worked. And
for those interested here's some info on using the '\\.\' prefix to
inhibit DOS reserved words checks:<br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://support.microsoft.com/kb/315226">http://support.microsoft.com/kb/315226</a><br>
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Pete<br>
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Raffaello Giulietti wrote:
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<pre wrap="">On 2010-10-27 18:20, Pete Brunet wrote:
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<pre wrap="">On WinXP I'm unable to delete an old OpenJDK directory because there are
a lot of files named NUL which Windows is not able to delete.
I can delete them by renaming them one by one with 'ren
\\.\c:\full_path\nul xyz' but that would take a long time. Is there a
command available in cygwin that will delete the directory? Cygwin rm
also fails to delete files named NUL.
Pete
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rd /S /Q \\.\C:\full_path_to_folder
Cheers
Raffaello
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