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Recent change in redirection handling?
- From: Ashok Vadekar <avadekar at certicom dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Fri, 4 Jun 2004 11:45:13 -0400
- Subject: Recent change in redirection handling?
- Reply-to: avadekar at certicom dot com
I have a bash script that ran cleanly under 1.5.9x, that now exhibits some
disturbing behaviour under a recent upgrade. The gist of the problem is that
the execution of
compact /c file.exe >NUL
which used to run and produce no output (due to the redirect) now actually
puts the output into a file called NUL
So, I can deal with the fact that the script needs to either use
NUL: (which I did not test) or maybe more appropriately /dev/null (which
works), but I now have the NUL files polluting my disk that cannot be removed!
Under a real unix shell, I've had occasion to drop down to a bourne shell to
delete filenames with wilrdcard characters that a (t)csh would have trouble
with, but I have not found a similar was to deal with this. Using
rm NUL
in bash does not work;
rem NUL
in a dos box doesn't work, and the windows explorer doesn't either.
Any suggestions?
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