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Re: phantom file "aux" under bash b19
- To: karipid at mae dot cornell dot edu (Daniel Karipides), gnu-win32 at cygnus dot com
- Subject: Re: phantom file "aux" under bash b19
- From: Larry Hall <lhall at rfk dot com>
- Date: Sun, 05 Apr 1998 20:13:27 -0400
At 02:07 PM 4/3/98 -0500, Daniel Karipides wrote:
>
>I couldn't find any reference to this in the FAQ:
>
>Under bash, b19, there is a phantom file "aux" that does not exist,
>but affects things such as "ls" and "tar".
>
>As an example:
>
> bash-2.01$ ls -l aux
> crw-r--r-- 0 0 everyone 0, 0 Dec 31 1969 aux
>
>This works in any directory. One cannot name other files "aux". The
>command:
>
> touch aux
>
>hangs the shell.
>
>I hope this information is useful.
>
>-Dan
This will "work" with "con" too. These are anachronistic names from DOS
days that we still have to live with...
Larry Hall lhall@rfk.com
RFK Partners, Inc. (781) 239-1053
8 Grove Street (781) 239-1655 - FAX
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