deleting a file ending with a dot

[Andrew DeFaria]

Dave Korn wrote:

>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of Baurjan Ismagulov
>
>> tar has created a file ending with a dot, and now I can't delete it 
>> (I've tried rm, del in cmd, explorer, far, unlink call with and 
>> without -mno-cygwin). What would you suggest before I search an 8-GB 
>> volume for the directory entry with a disk editor? I would appreciate 
>> any help (pointers to NTFS directory structure description also 
>> welcome). Scandisk didn't report any problems.
>
> Maybe there's a problem with the perms on it? What output do you get 
> from "ls -la file." and from "cacls file." ?
>
> BTW, this would have been a better bug report 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.

It never ceases to amaze me how people tend to forget to include such 
critical data. My usual response is a question: What was your first 
indication that it failed?
-- 
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