Handling special characters (\/:*?"<>|) gracefully

[Brian Dessent]

Dave Korn wrote:

>   Well, the /real/ problem about those files (which matched DOS special device
> names) was that you couldn't remove them from cygwin either; not being able to
> delete them from the very same command shell where you created them is far
> worse than having to use the same tool to delete something that you used to
> create it.

You can create and delete them fine from Cygwin using the native path
(touch '//?/c:/nul') but that wasn't very intuitive.

Brian