Re: rm hangs on illegal filename nul

[Volker Quetschke <quetschke at scytek dot de>]

Vince Hoffman wrote:
> > > 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.

Hmm,

$ cmd /c dir /x
 Volume in drive C has no label.
 Volume Serial Number is 2C4B-5A99

 Directory of C:\cygwin\home\quetschke

05/27/2004  09:52 AM    <DIR>                       .
05/27/2004  09:52 AM    <DIR>                       ..
05/27/2004  09:52 AM                 4              nul

doesn't help :-(

> 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.

Maybe that works for directory names, but this is a file named nul.

Volker

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