From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from aldebaran.he1ix.org (aldebaran.he1ix.org [IPv6:2a01:4f8:173:803:0:a1de:ba:a]) by sourceware.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 2C8BF385840A for ; Thu, 11 Nov 2021 14:00:22 +0000 (GMT) DMARC-Filter: OpenDMARC Filter v1.4.1 sourceware.org 2C8BF385840A Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; dmarc=none (p=none dis=none) header.from=emmenlauer.de Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; spf=fail smtp.mailfrom=emmenlauer.de Received: from port-213-160-25-97.static.as20676.net ([213.160.25.97] helo=[192.168.33.170]) by aldebaran.he1ix.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.3) tls TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_128_GCM_SHA256 (Exim 4.93) (envelope-from ) id 1mlAcl-000D6K-Kf for cygwin@cygwin.com; Thu, 11 Nov 2021 15:00:20 +0100 Message-ID: <0f5802ef-5fbc-9d39-3bfa-a433e1eb5d0d@emmenlauer.de> Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2021 15:00:19 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:91.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/91.3.0 Content-Language: en-US To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: From: Mario Emmenlauer In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 213.160.25.97 X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: mario@emmenlauer.de X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on server2.sourceware.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-6.0 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00, KAM_DMARC_STATUS, NICE_REPLY_A, SPF_HELO_NONE, TXREP, T_SPF_PERMERROR autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Subject: Re: Could rm remove files and folders with colon in their name? X-SA-Exim-Version: 4.2.1 (built Sat, 08 Feb 2020 21:53:50 +0000) X-SA-Exim-Scanned: Yes (on aldebaran.he1ix.org) X-BeenThere: cygwin@cygwin.com X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: General Cygwin discussions and problem reports List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2021 14:00:30 -0000 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