On 10.11.21 14:49, Corinna Vinschen via Cygwin wrote: > On Nov 10 10:45, Mario Emmenlauer wrote: >> 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.
That is indeed interesting, I was not aware of it! Then maybe the problem is not so hard to solve? That would be awesome! > Funny. I'm busy with non-Cygwin stuff ATM, but I'll look into it > later. > > Thanks for the report. Thanks a lot for your support! All the best, Mario Emmenlauer -- BioDataAnalysis GmbH, Mario Emmenlauer Tel. Buero: +49-89-74677203 Balanstr. 43 mailto: memmenlauer * biodataanalysis.de D-81669 München http://www.biodataanalysis.de/ -- 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