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Re: redirection can create nul files - Was: rm hangs on illegal filename nul
On Thu, 27 May 2004, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Thu, May 27, 2004 at 11:39:22AM -0400, Volker Quetschke wrote:
> >Igor wrote:
> >>A couple more datapoints:
> >>
> >>- You can also create "nul" by "touch nul".
> >>- You can use forward slashes, so "rm //./c:/somedir/nul" works.
> >>- For me (on Win2k SP3), "rm nul" doesn't hang, but doesn't do anything
> >> either.
> >Here neither, but "rm -rf somedir" hangs.
>
> Hasn't that point been made several times?
> Are we starting an email loop now to correspond to the hang?
My bad. I misread the original message. The first two points, however,
still remain relevant.
Igor
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