On 10/11/2021 21:39, Corinna Vinschen via Cygwin wrote:
On Nov 10 21:24, Mario Emmenlauer wrote:
On 10.11.21 14:49, Corinna Vinschen via Cygwin wrote:
On Nov 10 10:45, Mario Emmenlauer wrote:
Could 'rm' support removing files and folders that have a colon ':' in
their name? I.e. I would like that 'rm -fr' would remove a full directory
tree, including such folders. Currently it will correctly remove anything
inside such folders, but not the folder itself.
As an example, for the following structure:
C:/root/folder/C:/inside/file.txt
When using 'rm -fr root', afterwards I have:
C:/root/folder/C:
It works fine if the folder is called, say, "a:b", it just doesn't
work for a name which looks like a drive letter "x:", apparently.
That is indeed interesting, I was not aware of it! Then maybe the
problem is not so hard to solve? That would be awesome!
To the contrary. The problem is the ambiguity that "X:/foo" might
be either the absolute POSIX path $CWD/X:/foo, or the absolute DOS
path "X:\foo". I have a patch which fixes your case, but not much
else. The problem is that we historically allow DOS paths as input
at all. That was a bad decision from the start, but you can't easily
change 25 years of history...
Oh my, I see! All the more thanks for so quickly patching support for
this use case. Its highly appreciated!
All the best,
Mario
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