Re: Could rm remove files and folders with colon in their name?

2021-11-24 Thread Chris Wagner
On 2021-11-10 3:39 pm, Corinna Vinschen via Cygwin wrote: To the contrary. The problem is the ambiguity that "X:/foo" might be either the absolute POSIX path $CWD/X:/foo, or the absolute DOS path "X:\foo". I have a patch which fixes your case, but not much else. The problem is that we

Re: Could rm remove files and folders with colon in their name?

2021-11-11 Thread Mario Emmenlauer
On 10/11/2021 21:39, Corinna Vinschen via Cygwin wrote: On Nov 10 21:24, Mario Emmenlauer wrote: 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

Re: Could rm remove files and folders with colon in their name?

2021-11-10 Thread Corinna Vinschen via Cygwin
On Nov 10 21:24, Mario Emmenlauer wrote: > 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 >

Re: Could rm remove files and folders with colon in their name?

2021-11-10 Thread Mario Emmenlauer
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

Re: Could rm remove files and folders with colon in their name?

2021-11-10 Thread Mario Emmenlauer
Hi Brian, On 10.11.21 17:35, Brian Inglis wrote: > On 2021-11-10 02:45, Mario Emmenlauer wrote: >> PS: These folders are created when I use the Cygwin-based build system >> for ICU (see >>

Re: Could rm remove files and folders with colon in their name?

2021-11-10 Thread Brian Inglis
On 2021-11-10 02:45, 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

Re: Could rm remove files and folders with colon in their name?

2021-11-10 Thread Andrey Repin via Cygwin
Greetings, Mario Emmenlauer! > 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.

Re: Could rm remove files and folders with colon in their name?

2021-11-10 Thread Corinna Vinschen via Cygwin
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,

Could rm remove files and folders with colon in their name?

2021-11-10 Thread Mario Emmenlauer
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