How to delete file "nul"?

[Igor Pechtchanski]

Fred,

First off, <http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PCYMTNQREAIYR>.

Secondly, if "rm" didn't work for the OP from the bash prompt, what makes
you think it'll work from "find"?  Oh, and you used the wrong "/" before
the semicolon (which would thankfully make the below command invalid,
because if it were valid, it would have deleted the root directory of
Cygwin).  As I've found out time and time again, it pays to actually try
the commands yourself before sending them to the public list, and then
cut-and-paste them to avoid the possibility of error.

HTH,
	Igor

On Fri, 2 Jul 2004, PLAN Frédéric URS Lyon wrote:

> Hello,
>
> try this way :
>
> cd my_folder
> find ./ -name "nul" -exec rm {} /;
>
> Fred
>
>
> -----Message d'origine-----
> De : cygwin-owner@XXXXXX.XXX [mailto:cygwin-owner@XXXXXX.XXX]De la part de Michael Pfeiffer
> Envoye : vendredi 2 juillet 2004 11:29
> A : cygwin@XXXXXX.XXX
> Objet : How to delete file "nul"?
>
> Hi
>
> bash allows to pipe to a file named "nul" e.g.:
> echo test > nul
>
> bash-2.05b$ ls -l
> total 1
> -rwxrwxrwx    1 pfeiffer mkgroup-        4 Jul  2 10:00 nul
>
> The problem is that this file can not be deleted.
> I was not able to delete it using the "rm" command in
> bash, or "del" in a windows command line or the
> windows explorer.
>
> Any idea how this file can be deleted, without
> booting an alternative OS?
>
> Regards,
> Michael

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