| Admin Tip #156: How To Remove Files with Reserved Names such as LPT1 or PRN |
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If you have ever tried to delete a file with a reserved name, it is not normally possible to do so with the del command. NT comes with Posix utilities including rm.exe which is the unix version of delete. NTFS will not allow NT native utilities to delete or rename files with the reserved names. NTFS will allow Posix utilities to do so.
For the file named lpt1:
rm lpt1
If you are uncomfortable with Posix utilities, you can delete such files using the del command, if you fool NTFS into not doing reserve-word checking:
DEL \\.\c:\somedir\lpt1
Almost as ugly a syntax as used in file URLs.
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