Timeline for On my Windows machine, I had a folder with a name of four dots that acted like some kind of rabbit hole - how did that happen?
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| Nov 13, 2018 at 22:19 | history | edited | Larryc | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Nov 11, 2018 at 16:02 | comment | added | Eric Towers |
Do you get the same result with ..\.., i.e., a file with name prefix ..\. and empty suffix that DOS would render as "...."?
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| Nov 11, 2018 at 11:41 | comment | added | RomanSt | Curiously FAR manager doesn't see this as special in any way, and creates / renames / deletes / lists the contents of directories named "lots of dots" with no issues at all. | |
| Nov 7, 2018 at 16:07 | comment | added | Tomáš Zato |
On my Windows 7 machine MD ....` only creates ....\....` tree - there is only one step of recursion.
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| Nov 2, 2018 at 21:33 | comment | added | Larryc | I have a DOS 3.3 and a DOS 6.0 machines and the commands work on them. When they switched to 32 bit the issue was still there. it works in the CMD window from win95 all the way up to today, including all server versions. Now that we're switching to Powershell It no longer works. I realized after I wrote that that it does create the directory but it doesn't provide the effect that the OP was seeing. If I try to CD into the directory with four dots it just kicks me back out. | |
| Nov 2, 2018 at 11:26 | comment | added | lucidbrot | Interestingly, If I try to delete the directory in windows explorer, it crashes when I created it with your version. When I created it with cygwin, it simply fails and says so. | |
| Nov 2, 2018 at 5:39 | comment | added | grawity_u1686 | That rather sounds like a Win32 API flaw, given that the command prompt hasn't been "MS-DOS" anymore for about twenty years now. | |
| S Nov 2, 2018 at 3:38 | history | edited | Run5k | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Nov 2, 2018 at 3:07 | history | answered | Larryc | CC BY-SA 4.0 |