WARNINGWARNING: THE MENTIONED -sdel SWITCH IS POTENTIALLY DANGEROUSWARNING(Not that it does anything "wrong", but it my do something that you, the user, were not expecting, so test safely.
Similar in concept to doing a DEL . /S or RD . /S /Q.)
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That is a rather interesting conundrum.
I don't think that BRU can handle it - at all.
I can get the files into BRU, but it only sees them (incorrectly) as 0-bytes, & then is unable to manipulate them at that.
My file manager,
Altap Salamander, has no problem seeing them, deleting them, or renaming them - individually.
Really no issue in deleting the files, even in bulk.
Simply use the DEL command, or I suppose RD would work too.
One issue might be if you only wanted to delete filename. files but wanted to leave the "filename" (a version without the dot) there.
Now 7-zip is very interesting.
(I don't use the GUI, but command-line...
On my end, I've renamed 7-zip.exe to 777.exe, & I'll use that from here on...)
777 can archive the files.
If the files you're after are in a single (or at least relatively few) directory tree(s), you can archive that tree, including the "dot" files.
777 can also delete files upon archiving, again including the "dot" files.
And most importantly, 777 can extract the files from its' archive, & in doing so, the "dot" files end up being extracted as "_" files.
So...
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Directory of I:\XXX\YYY\X\Y
09/22/2018 08:23 AM <DIR> .
09/22/2018 08:23 AM <DIR> ..
09/22/2018 07:54 AM 390 0.7z
09/22/2018 07:55 AM 507 0.ARJ
09/22/2018 08:04 AM 535 00.7z
09/22/2018 08:23 AM 572 dotdot.
09/22/2018 08:23 AM 524 dotdotdot.
09/22/2018 08:23 AM <DIR> Z
5 File(s) 2,528 bytes
Directory of I:\XXX\YYY\X\Y\Z
09/22/2018 08:23 AM <DIR> .
09/22/2018 08:23 AM <DIR> ..
09/22/2018 07:57 AM 390 0.7z
09/22/2018 07:57 AM 507 0.ARJ
09/22/2018 08:23 AM 473 dotdot.
09/22/2018 08:23 AM 473 dotdotdot.
4 File(s) 1,843 bytes
Total Files Listed:
9 File(s) 4,371 bytes
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777 a ARCHIVE.7z -sdel
The -sdel switch tells 777 to 'delete files after compression'.
So after compressing the files/directories into ARCHIVE.7z, they are deleted (both the files, & any directories, & including dot files).
At that point, all that is left is ARCHIVE.7z.
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7-Zip 18.01 (x86) : Copyright (c) 1999-2018 Igor Pavlov : 2018-01-28
Scanning the drive for archives:
1 file, 1430 bytes (2 KiB)
Listing archive: ARCHIVE.7z
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Path = ARCHIVE.7z
Type = 7z
Physical Size = 1430
Headers Size = 278
Method = LZMA2:6k
Solid = +
Blocks = 1
Date Time Attr Size Compressed Name
------------------- ----- ------------ ------------ ------------------------
2018-09-22 08:23:32 D.... 0 0 Z
2018-09-22 07:54:55 ....A 390 1152 0.7z
2018-09-22 07:55:57 ....A 507 0.ARJ
2018-09-22 08:04:17 ....A 535 00.7z
2018-09-22 08:23:42 ....A 572 dotdot.
2018-09-22 08:23:39 ....A 524 dotdotdot.
2018-09-22 07:57:40 ....A 390 Z\0.7z
2018-09-22 07:57:40 ....A 507 Z\0.ARJ
2018-09-22 08:23:32 ....A 473 Z\dotdot.
2018-09-22 08:23:30 ....A 473 Z\dotdotdot.
------------------- ----- ------------ ------------ ------------------------
2018-09-22 08:23:42 4371 1152 9 files, 1 folders
Now, all that is left to do, is to extract the files from ARCHIVE.7z.
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777 x ARCHIVE.7z
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Directory of I:\XXX\YYY\X\Y
09/22/2018 08:33 AM <DIR> .
09/22/2018 08:33 AM <DIR> ..
09/22/2018 07:54 AM 390 0.7z
09/22/2018 07:55 AM 507 0.ARJ
09/22/2018 08:04 AM 535 00.7z
09/22/2018 08:30 AM 1,430 ARCHIVE.7z
09/22/2018 08:23 AM 524 dotdotdot_
09/22/2018 08:23 AM 572 dotdot_
09/22/2018 08:23 AM <DIR> Z
6 File(s) 3,958 bytes
Directory of I:\XXX\YYY\X\Y\Z
09/22/2018 08:23 AM <DIR> .
09/22/2018 08:23 AM <DIR> ..
09/22/2018 07:57 AM 390 0.7z
09/22/2018 07:57 AM 507 0.ARJ
09/22/2018 08:23 AM 473 dotdotdot_
09/22/2018 08:23 AM 473 dotdot_
4 File(s) 1,843 bytes
Total Files Listed:
10 File(s) 5,801 bytes
The dot files are extracted, renamed to "_".
(Tell Igor, thank you
.)
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Heh.
Before this, I never even knew that you could have a "dot" file.
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I:\XXX\YYY\X\Y>dir > \\?\i:\xxx\yyy\x\y\dotdot.
I:\XXX\YYY\X\Y>dir > \\?\i:\xxx\yyy\x\y\dotdotdot.
I:\XXX\YYY\X\Y>dir > \\?\i:\xxx\yyy\x\y\z\dotdot.
I:\XXX\YYY\X\Y>dir > \\?\i:\xxx\yyy\x\y\z\dotdotdot.