On Fri, 4 Jun 2004, Ashok Vadekar wrote: > I have a bash script that ran cleanly under 1.5.9x, that now exhibits some > disturbing behaviour under a recent upgrade. The gist of the problem is that > the execution of > compact /c file.exe >NUL > which used to run and produce no output (due to the redirect) now actually > puts the output into a file called NUL > So, I can deal with the fact that the script needs to either use > NUL: (which I did not test) or maybe more appropriately /dev/null (which > works), but I now have the NUL files polluting my disk that cannot be removed! > > Under a real unix shell, I've had occasion to drop down to a bourne shell to > delete filenames with wilrdcard characters that a (t)csh would have trouble > with, but I have not found a similar was to deal with this. Using > rm NUL > in bash does not work; > rem NUL > in a dos box doesn't work, and the windows explorer doesn't either. > > Any suggestions?
Known problem. See <http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2004-05/msg00905.html> and <http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2004-06/msg00144.html>. In particular, the thread referenced in the first message should tell you how to remove the file. Incidentally, why do you redirect to NUL rather than to /dev/null? Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "I have since come to realize that being between your mentor and his route to the bathroom is a major career booster." -- Patrick Naughton -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
