RE: deleting a file ending with a dot

["Dave Korn" <dk at artimi dot com>]

> -----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.


    cheers, 
      DaveK
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