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RE: 3 bugs
- To: "'earnie_boyd at yahoo dot com'" <earnie_boyd at yahoo dot com>, "'Thomas dot Wolff at icn dot siemens dot de'" <Thomas dot Wolff at icn dot siemens dot de>, cygwin at sourceware dot cygnus dot com
- Subject: RE: 3 bugs
- From: John Wiersba <John dot Wiersba at medstat dot com>
- Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2000 14:45:05 -0400
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Earnie Boyd [mailto:earnie_boyd@yahoo.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, April 18, 2000 1:17 PM
>
> Have you tried quoting techniques?
>
> rm b\.
> rm "b."
> rm "b\."
Well, sort of.
$ ls -li
total 0
20061687 -rw-r--r-- 1 administ JRW 0 Apr 18 14:04 b
20061687 -rw-r--r-- 1 administ JRW 0 Apr 18 14:04 b.
$ rm b
$ ls -li
ls: b.: No such file or directory
total 0
$ touch b
$ ls -li
total 0
20389367 -rw-r--r-- 1 administ JRW 0 Apr 18 14:14 b
20389367 -rw-r--r-- 1 administ JRW 0 Apr 18 14:14 b.
Note the different "inode" numbers. Apparently, there is a directory entry
for b. which is pathologically linked to the name b (no dot).
-- John Wiersba
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