Your answer confirms my assumption that there are hidden chars trailing the dot: try ls -q cachedmetrics* and use the result to delete...
> -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf > Of Baurjan Ismagulov > Sent: Friday, January 16, 2004 2:53 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: 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. > > -- > Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple > Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html > Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html > FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ > > -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
