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

Chris Wagner wagnerc@plebeian.com
Wed Nov 24 15:40:36 GMT 2021


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 historically allow DOS paths as input
> at all.  That was a bad decision from the start, but you can't easily
> change 25 years of history...

To contribute my 2 cents, native support for DOS paths is invaluable for 
me.  Changeing that would break a lot of Windows/POSIX integration.

The simple fix for all weird/ambiguous names is to qualify it with 
`./...`.

Thanks.


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