RE: rm hangs on illegal filename nul

[Vince Hoffman <jhary at unsane dot co dot uk>]

On Thu, 27 May 2004, Dave Korn wrote:

> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: cygwin-owner  On Behalf Of Volker Quetschke
> > Sent: 27 May 2004 14:25
> > To: cygwin@cygwin.com
> > Subject: rm hangs on illegal filename nul
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > I somehow managed to create a file named nul (further investigation
> > pending), and now rm -rf hangs when trying to remove the
> > directory with
> > this file.
>
>   Known ('doze) problem.  Also occurs with filenames like aux, com1, lpt
> etc.  The workaround is WDDTT.
>
umm is that another way of saying, try
cmd /c dir /x
find 8.3 format name of file and them rm that.

i have a bash script to recurse and remove directories with names of lpt,
nul,aux etc somewhere, as a client had left anonymous ftp on and some
warez group had created a directory structure about 20 deep with this kind
of name.

Vince

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