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Re: How to delete file "nul"?


Please search the list archives before asking for something:

http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2004-06/msg01235.html

(it's a message of 3 days ago).
Ciao,

Danilo

Michael Pfeiffer wrote:

Hi

bash allows to pipe to a file named "nul" e.g.:
echo test > nul

bash-2.05b$ ls -l
total 1
-rwxrwxrwx    1 pfeiffer mkgroup-        4 Jul  2 10:00 nul

The problem is that this file can not be deleted.
I was not able to delete it using the "rm" command in
bash, or "del" in a windows command line or the
windows explorer.

Any idea how this file can be deleted, without
booting an alternative OS?


Regards, Michael




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