Cygwin translates filenames so that characters which are allowed by POSIX but forbidden by Windows (such as the asterisk) are translated into private use area unicode characters.
Your attempt at an ls long listing suggests that there may be more to your filenames than just a simple asterisk.
A few questions:
Which version of the cygwin.dll are you using?
How were these files created? You glossed over this earlier, so please tell us everything you can about the sequence of commands and events which produced these files.
Have you tried simply deleting them using Windows' file manager (Explorer)?
Each of the following pipelines should be run with the directory containing the problematic files as the current working directory.
For an unambiguous representation of ls' output:
Also, the following may shed some light on the situation:
Hi,
I have been searching how to do this but I can't seem to find how to do it. Hopefully someone can help.
I have multiplr files, 100's example 12345-zxys.213423.zyz.txt. I want to be able to take all these files and remove the first '12345-' from each of the files. '12345-' these characters... (5 Replies)
Hi
My directory structure is as below.
dir1, dir2, dir3
I have the list of files to be deleted in the below path as below.
/staging/retain_for_2years/Cleanup/log $ ls -lrt
total 0
drwxr-xr-x 2 nobody nobody 256 Mar 01 16:15 01-MAR-2015_SPDBS2
drwxr-xr-x 2 root ... (2 Replies)
Hi,
I have multiple files having many lines like as bvelow:
file Name a.txt
abc def
def xyz
123 5678
file Name b.txt
abc def
def xyz
123 5678
I would like to append files in the below format to a new file:
file Name c.txt (7 Replies)
I am writing a code to append some numbers in the beginning of each line in all the files present in a directory. The number of files are really huge. The files are numbered as 1.sco, 2.sco, 4.sco (Note: 3.sco is missing).
The files currently look like this:
1.sco
2 3
5 6
6 7My task is to... (4 Replies)
Im trying to use wild cards to find files that start with either an upper or lower case letter e.g. list files that beginning with b or B, i also want to sort them by the time they were last modified. e.g latest file created first.
At the moment i have the following code that
ls -d... (3 Replies)
Hi All
I have a folder that contains hundreds of file with a names
3.msa
4.msa
21.msa
6.msa
345.msa
456.msa
98.msa
...
...
...
I need rename each of this file by adding "core_" in the begiining of each file such as
core_3.msa
core_4.msa
core_21.msa (4 Replies)
Hello. I have the following issue: my txt file has the following format:
train/dr4/fklc0/sx175.txt
0 80282 Severe myopia contributed to Ron's inferiority complex.
train/dr4/fklc0/sx355.txt
0 42906 Dolphins are intelligent marine mammals. train/dr4/fklc0/sa2.txt
awk 'NR%2==0' test1.txt >... (4 Replies)
Greetings,
I want to use a script (preferably awk) which determines if the first character in a line is double-byte (as in Japanese or Chinese) and deletes it.
For example:
(in the above quote, I see Japanese on my screen for two lines - with 2 characters in the first and 3 characters in the... (8 Replies)
I want to script out deleting the first field of a file when it is created. I'm looking to store the output of an ls -l commad to a file but leaving off the permissions so when the file is opened I see something like;
2 bin bin 256 Feb 6 2005 mnt
5 root system 256... (2 Replies)
I've been searching around here and other places, but can't put this together...
I've got a unique list of words in file 1 (one word on each line).
I need to delete each line in file2 that begins with the word in file1.
I started this way, but want to know how to use file1 words instead... (13 Replies)