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

Question

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:

Other ideas?

score 5 · Accepted Answer · answered Mar 29 '10 at 00:10

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

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

answered Mar 29 '10 at 00:10

Dennis Williamson

*.* Wont match the filename unless it has a . in the name – DrStalker Mar 29 '10 at 00:56
@DrStalker: It should under Windows. `echo hey>a & dir * & dir *.* & del *.* & dir` – Dennis Williamson Mar 29 '10 at 01:19
@Dave: reformatting is way overkill. It's possible the file was being held open by another process. You didn't post any error messages (and I forgot to ask). – Dennis Williamson Mar 29 '10 at 01:20
@DrStalker: Correction `Best*` did not work. The computer was freshly booted and the directory was not accessed. – Dave Jarvis Mar 31 '10 at 01:40

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