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Dave Jarvis
Asked: 2010-03-29 15:57:48 +0800 CST

Delete a directory with pipe (|) in its name?

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Without booting to Linux, how do you delete a directory that was created in Linux on an NTFS partition that contains a pipe in the file name?

For example:

f:\flac\foreign\Yoshida_Brothers\Best_of_Yoshida_Brothers_|_Tsugaru_Shamisen

Tried and failed:

  • Midnight Commander
  • Recursively deleting the parent folder
  • del /f /s /q Yoshida_Brothers
  • del /f /s /q "\\?f:\flac\foreign\Yoshida_Brothers\"
  • rmdir /s Yoshida_Brothers
  • rmdir Best*
  • FileASSASSIN
  • Cannot delete folder

Other ideas?

windows-xp directory pipe

1 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    Substituting the single-character wildcard ? for the pipe character should work:

    del f:\flac\foreign\Yoshida_Brothers\Best_of_Yoshida_Brothers_?_Tsugaru_Shamisen
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