On Nov 10 10:45, Mario Emmenlauer wrote: > > Dear All, > > I've searched if this topic has come up before but could not find it. > > Could 'rm' support removing files and folders that have a colon ':' in > their name? I.e. I would like that 'rm -fr' would remove a full directory > tree, including such folders. Currently it will correctly remove anything > inside such folders, but not the folder itself. > > As an example, for the following structure: > C:/root/folder/C:/inside/file.txt > > When using 'rm -fr root', afterwards I have: > C:/root/folder/C:
It works fine if the folder is called, say, "a:b", it just doesn't work for a name which looks like a drive letter "x:", apparently. Funny. I'm busy with non-Cygwin stuff ATM, but I'll look into it later. Thanks for the report. Corinna -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: https://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: https://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: https://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple