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Hi,

Thanks so much for your time, here are my replies

I am not so sure, what I see is just a *, *1, *2 and so forth..thats the way I created them

CYGWIN_NT-6.1

I probably missed seeing the question, these files were created by tcpdump, with basic filename being * and a value that increments and creates a new file each time the file reaches beyond a value. These were created on a unix system and then moved to another harddisk without any trouble.

Tried that, get a response saying the filename is not valid or too long.

Code:

ls | od -b
0000000 052 012 052 061 012 052 062 012
0000010

Code:

$ for f in *; do stat "$f"; done
stat: cannot stat `*': No such file or directory
stat: cannot stat `*1': No such file or directory
stat: cannot stat `*2': No such file or directory

Thanks!

If you don't mind diving into the deep end, look into strace.

Code:

strace -o ../trace.txt sh -c 'rm *'

The manual page may contain information which will help to exclude irrelevant information, but I'm not familiar with the cygwin variant of this tool.

Regards,
Alister

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Are these files being accessed over a network file system? What is the filesystem used by the partition on which they reside?

Regards,
Alister

Thanks alister,

I just peeped at the strace file, looks complicated, will look into it for some hints.

These files are on a USB HDD with NTFS file system.

With regard to the trace, often it's simpler to start at the end, near the error. But before you waste any time with that, confirm your cygwin version.

I suspect you are running an old version of the cygwin.dll which does not support that type of filename.

From their changelog:
"CYGWIN_NT-6.1" is not the version string. That just identifies the platform. What is the output of uname -r. If it is less than 1.7.2, then you need to update.

Regards,
Alister

Aha..now we are on to something..I'm on version 1.7.11. Will try updating right away.

Thanks!

11 > 2. You have a new enough version. But it may have bugs for all I know, so try updating anyway.

That's right. What was I thinking will try updating anyways.