How to run dos commands from cygwin? File name too long - fix

Typically we write shell scripts and run it under cygwin shell. The command used in scripts like rm, mv are obtained from cygwin installation. But recently we encountered a tedious issue with cygwin shell.
The 'rm' command run from cygwin fails with message "File name too long" for some of the files and it's causing build failure.

After a bit of research, I found there is a limit for file name length in cygwin (I guess 256 characters). Upgrading the cygwin may fix the issue, but I didn't want to do that.

Fix: I found that the native dos 'rmdir' command can delete these lengthy file names without any issue and hence I decided to call native dos commands from Shell scripts.

Here is a way to call native dos commands from cygwin shell
  cmd /C rmdir /S /Q <directory>


here
   cmd   -  Starts a new instance of the Windows command interpreter
       /C   - Carries out the command specified by string and then terminates

  rmdir - dos command to delete directory
     /S - recursive delete of files & sub-directories
     /Q  - Quiet


Just add this command to shell script. It may need some if condition to run this only on Windows platform.