... oops, I forgot to mention that this is a pure command-line Windows solution, not a Cygwin command.
On 2010-10-27 19:17, Raffaello Giulietti wrote: > On 2010-10-27 18:20, Pete Brunet wrote: >> On WinXP I'm unable to delete an old OpenJDK directory because there are >> a lot of files named NUL which Windows is not able to delete. >> >> I can delete them by renaming them one by one with 'ren >> \\.\c:\full_path\nul xyz' but that would take a long time. Is there a >> command available in cygwin that will delete the directory? Cygwin rm >> also fails to delete files named NUL. >> >> Pete > > rd /S /Q \\.\C:\full_path_to_folder > > > Cheers > Raffaello
