nul

Robert Schmidt rschm@broadpark.no
Tue Oct 26 12:18:00 GMT 2004


Markus Schönhaber wrote:
>> [snip]
>> nor from cygwin shell. Not a big problem, but annoying. Any ideas on 
>> how to
>> get rid of it?
>>
> Assuming you created
> C:\some\path\nul
> using
> del \\.\C:\some\path\nul
> in the Windows console might help you to get rid of it.

I think even that will fail.
The trick I ususally use is to rename it in the console, as CMD's "ren" 
seems to be more "ignorant" about nul than both mv, rm, del and even 
4NT's "ren":

[in CMD:]
ren \\.\C:\full\path\nul __crap
del __crap


Cheers,
Robse


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