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Re: deleting a file ending with a dot
Hello, David!
On Fri, Jan 16, 2004 at 12:05:31PM -0000, Dave Korn wrote:
> Maybe there's a problem with the perms on it? What output do you get from
> "ls -la file." and from "cacls file." ?
ls: cachedmetrics.: No such file or directory
I don't have cacls installed, but getfacl also says "No such file or
directory".
> BTW, this would have been a better bug report...
I'm afraid that this is a Windows feature :) -- to be able to create
files and then not to be able to work with them :/ .
> ... if you had told us what
> actually *happened* when you tried all those things - did you get error
> messages? Did unlink return an error code? Or did just nothing happen? Or
> did your machine BSOD and start smoke pouring out the back? Knowing what
> happened is the first clue to start working out what went wrong, you see.
Thanks for the tip :) . All programs said that they cannot find such a
file. Unlink returned ENOENT. When I click on "Properties", there is no
file name in the window.
With kind regards,
Baurjan.
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