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Re: redirection can create nul files - Was: rm hangs on illegal filename nul
On Thu, May 27, 2004 at 11:39:22AM -0400, Volker Quetschke wrote:
>Igor wrote:
>>A couple more datapoints:
>>
>>- You can also create "nul" by "touch nul".
>>- You can use forward slashes, so "rm //./c:/somedir/nul" works.
>>- For me (on Win2k SP3), "rm nul" doesn't hang, but doesn't do anything
>> either.
>Here neither, but "rm -rf somedir" hangs.
Hasn't that point been made several times?
Are we starting an email loop now to correspond to the hang?
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