[Solved] How to delete a file with zero byte created accidentally with name "Call" on Windows ?

[Hackoo]

How to delete a file with zero byte created accidentally with name "Call" ?
I'm facing with this issue that i couldn't figure it out until now ?
I tried with command Del but no chance.

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@echo off
 set "targetdir=C:\FolderDir"
 for /f "delims=" %%a in ('dir/s/b/a-d "%targetdir%\*.*"') do ( if %%~Za equ 0 echo %%~na>>results.txt && del "%%~a" )

I tried also to remove the directory which contains this file "Call"

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RD /S /Q [ParentFolder with file Call Inside]

I tried with Powershell too :

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Get-ChildItem -Path "C:\MyFolderDir" -Recurse -Force | Where-Object { $_.PSIsContainer -eq $false -and $_.Length -eq 0 } | remove-item

EDIT : Problem is Solved here
Solution Provided by Compo on stackoverflow thanks to him :
Trailing spaces are not valid in Windows,I tried to delete it like this:

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Del /A /F "\\?\C:\Users\Hackoo\Desktop\Scripting\Call "

[penpen]

I'm just curious - how did you create that file in windows?

penpen

[jfl]

That kind of problem happened to me a few times already.
Usually because I had typed Windows cmd.exe commands by mistake in the Linux subsystem Bash prompt. Recently I created like this a file called NUL, which I had a hard time deleting when I finally noticed it on the Windows side of things

But there were a few cases where I'm pretty sure I had done _nothing_ in Unix, but I had had cmd.exe crashes that day while developing complex macros. So there must be an unidentified bug somewhere in cmd.exe that allows to create that kind of file.