On 2010-10-27 18:20, Pete Brunet wrote: > On WinXP I'm unable to delete an old OpenJDK directory because there are > a lot of files named NUL which Windows is not able to delete. > > I can delete them by renaming them one by one with 'ren > \\.\c:\full_path\nul xyz' but that would take a long time. Is there a > command available in cygwin that will delete the directory? Cygwin rm > also fails to delete files named NUL. > > Pete
rd /S /Q \\.\C:\full_path_to_folder Cheers Raffaello
