colon got in file name -> can't delete!

[Andrew Petchonoff]

Hi

The problem is: Windows does not allow colons
in filenames. However, colons can be stored
on disk itself. And somehow cygwin managed
to write colon in filename to disk.

The only way to delete the file was
to run ntfsdos utility (available from
sysinternals.com) from DOS to access
the NTFS volume and delete the stupid file.
Thanks everyone for your responses.

Regards,
Andrew

--- Dario Alcocer <alcocer@helixdigital.com> wrote:
> >>>>> "Andrew" == Andrew Petchonov
> <c00lt4lk@yahoo.com> writes:
> 
>     Andrew> Hello , Description of the problem: A
> file with colon in
>     Andrew> the name was created successfully from
> cygwin, I can't
>     Andrew> delete it neither from cygwin nor from
> NT.  If you know
>     Andrew> how to delete it please drop me a line.
> 
> I'm not sure if this would work, but maybe you could
> try:
> 
>     $ rm .cachedmetrics.?0.0
> 
> This way, you don't reference the problematic colon
> directly.
> 
> -- 
> Dario Alcocer -- Sr. Software Developer, Helix
> Digital Inc.
> alcocer@helixdigital.com --
http://www.helixdigital.com


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