Hello, All!
To summarize:
* I couldn't see the permissions of the file.
* ls |od suggests that there were no hidden chars.
* Wildcards/tab find the file, but deleting fails with ENOENT.
* The file has not been opened, and the problem persisted after reboot.
* Scandisk didn't complain about a
> Hello,
>
> 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 hel
>-Original Message-
>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Christopher Faylor
>Sent: Friday, January 16, 2004 1:58 PM
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: Re: deleting a file ending with a dot
>
>On Fri, Jan 16, 2004 at 12:37:01PM -0800, Andrew D
On Fri, Jan 16, 2004 at 12:37:01PM -0800, Andrew DeFaria wrote:
>(It'd be nice if fuser worked under Cygwin but I realize that might be a
>significant challenge to implement).
sysinternals has something like this so it is feasible. Don't they even
release source for some packages? Could be an i
Dave Korn wrote:
> > David T-G wrote:
> > >
> > > [Does anyone know why this thread is showing up in my inbox
> > instead of
> > > being properly filtered? Has there been a list address change?]
> > >
> > Do you have your filters set to recognize both
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] and [EMAIL PROTECTED] B
>-Original Message-
>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Andrew DeFaria
>Sent: Friday, January 16, 2004 12:39 PM
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: Re: deleting a file ending with a dot
>(It'd be nice if fuser worked under Cygwin but I
Baurjan Ismagulov wrote:
Hello, David!
On Fri, Jan 16, 2004 at 12:05:31PM -, 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 get
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
On Fri, Jan 16, 2004 at 11:34:21AM -0500, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
>On Fri, 16 Jan 2004, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>> Please! don't add clear text mail addresses in email messages.
>
>This is a good rule of thumb, but it's rather useless for the cygwin@ list
>address itself -- the first line of any
Sent: 16 January 2004 16:34 From: Igor Pechtchanski
> > On Fri, Jan 16, 2004 at 04:21:17PM -, Hughes, Bill wrote:
> > >Sent: 16 January 2004 16:15 From: Christopher Faylor
> > >> If you mean the "Sender" field, then, yes, this is one way to filter.
> > >> Or you can filter on the Mailing-List f
On Fri, 16 Jan 2004, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 16, 2004 at 04:21:17PM -, Hughes, Bill wrote:
> >Sent: 16 January 2004 16:15 From: Christopher Faylor
> >> If you mean the "Sender" field, then, yes, this is one way to filter.
> >> Or you can filter on the Mailing-List field or the
Sent: 16 January 2004 16:25 From: Christopher Faylor
> Please! don't add clear text mail addresses in email messages.
Argh! Sorry. I have to work to get Outlook to format as I want (remove
addys) and then I manually put one in. Doh.
Apologies again, the only explanation (not excuse) is that it's Fr
On Fri, Jan 16, 2004 at 04:21:17PM -, Hughes, Bill wrote:
>Sent: 16 January 2004 16:15 From: Christopher Faylor
>> If you mean the "Sender" field, then, yes, this is one way to filter.
>> Or you can filter on the Mailing-List field or the List-* fields.
>>
>> It's really not too hard to figure
Sent: 16 January 2004 16:15 From: Christopher Faylor
> If you mean the "Sender" field, then, yes, this is one way to filter.
> Or you can filter on the Mailing-List field or the List-* fields.
>
> It's really not too hard to figure something to filter on if you look
> at the full headers.
>
> (and
On Fri, Jan 16, 2004 at 04:02:49PM -, Dave Korn wrote:
>My filters failed today for just the same reason. I've decided that
>checking for "cygwin-owner" in the From: field is probably most
>effective.
If you mean the "Sender" field, then, yes, this is one way to filter.
Or you can filter on t
> -Original Message-
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of David Fritz
> Sent: 16 January 2004 14:45
> Cc: cygwin
> Subject: Re: deleting a file ending with a dot
>
> David T-G wrote:
> >
> > [Does anyone know why t
David --
...and then David Fritz said...
%
% David T-G wrote:
% >
% >[Does anyone know why this thread is showing up in my inbox instead of
% >being properly filtered? Has there been a list address change?]
% >
% Do you have your filters set to recognize both [EMAIL PROTECTED] and
% [EMAIL PROT
If Windows lets tar create a file that Explorer cannot remove, it sounds
like a Windows problem.
(1)
Try rebooting. Maybe one of your earlier attempts to delete succeeded but
some file name cache is preserving the name. (I've noticed that on rare
occasions a file gets deleted but Explorer still
David T-G wrote:
[Does anyone know why this thread is showing up in my inbox instead of
being properly filtered? Has there been a list address change?]
Do you have your filters set to recognize both [EMAIL PROTECTED] and
[EMAIL PROTECTED] Both addresses get to this list.
HTH
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Baurjan Ismagulov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Peter J. Acklam wrote:
> >
> > ls -1ib DIR # find inode number NUM
>
> ls: cachedmetrics.: No such file or directory
Huh. ls seems to notice that the directory contains a
file named something like "cachedmetrics.", but yet it
is ab
Baurjan, et al --
[Does anyone know why this thread is showing up in my inbox instead of
being properly filtered? Has there been a list address change?]
...and then Baurjan Ismagulov said...
%
% > But I wonder how you created this file in the first place. It
% > seems to me that trailing dots
> > 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".
> Thanks for the tip :) . All
6, 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 -, Dave Korn wrote:
> > Maybe there's a problem with the perms on it? What
> output do you get from
&
Hello, Peter!
On Fri, Jan 16, 2004 at 01:29:00PM +0100, Peter J. Acklam wrote:
> ls -1ib DIR # find inode number NUM
ls: cachedmetrics.: No such file or directory
> But I wonder how you created this file in the first place. It
> seems to me that trailing dots
Hello, Morche!
On Fri, Jan 16, 2004 at 01:26:55PM +0100, Morche Matthias wrote:
> Are You shure the filename ends with that dot? Maybe there are unreadable chars
> appended, so Yozu never gave the correct filename when deleting...
ls |od -ctu1 shows:
000 c a c h e d m e t
Hello, David!
On Fri, Jan 16, 2004 at 12:05:31PM -, 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
Baurjan Ismagulov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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 e
Are You shure the filename ends with that dot? Maybe there are unreadable chars
appended, so Yozu never gave the correct filename when deleting...
I tried to create a file ending with a dot and did not succeed.
> -Original Message-
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] B
> -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 vo
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