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RE: broken 'ln' behavior
- To: "'mh at mike dot franken dot de'" <mh at mike dot franken dot de>, cygwin at sourceware dot cygnus dot com
- Subject: RE: broken 'ln' behavior
- From: John Wiersba <John dot Wiersba at medstat dot com>
- Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2000 14:59:17 -0400
> -----Original Message-----
> From: mh@mike.franken.de [mailto:mh@mike.franken.de]
>
> >Is there a way to delete a hard link named x. (2 characters)?
>
> Only way I found was the Posix subsystem. Interix 2.2 in my case - I
> suppose, any Posix subsystem will do the job, though.
>
> Ran Interix ksh und rm'ed the file "a."!
From another cygwin newsgroup thread, I found that the following works from
bash:
rm '\\?\d:\dir1\dir2\x.'
-- John
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