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Re: How to delete rogue nul files
- From: zzapper <david at tvis dot co dot uk>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Thu, 22 Jul 2004 15:47:24 +0100
- Subject: Re: How to delete rogue nul files
- References: <gd5tf09ne640a4hbd1gqracolb3u45jks7@4ax.com>
Hi,
I would like to declare this the NUL-est thread ever, and would like to thank you NUL-experts for
your NUL-help.
Seriously I've now learnt how to delete those pesky undeletable windows files namely
DEL \\.\c:\somedir\nul
or delinvfile.exe (google for this utility)
And also the conundrum that ls -l nul will ALWAYS list a file
zzapper (vim, cygwin, wiki & zsh)
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