From:	earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com (Earnie Boyd)
Subject:	Re: phantom file "aux" under bash b19
7 Apr 1998 02:59:53 -0700 :
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To:	Daniel Karipides <karipid AT mae DOT cornell DOT edu>, gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com

---Daniel Karipides <karipid AT mae DOT cornell DOT edu> wrote:
>
> 
> I couldn't find any reference to this in the FAQ:
> 

It's either in the FAQ or the README I forget which.


> Under bash, b19, there is a phantom file "aux" that does not exist,
> but affects things such as "ls" and "tar".
> 

Problems will arise with filenames that are device names under Win32,
EG: aux, con, prn, etc.

> As an example:
> 
>   bash-2.01$ ls -l aux
>   crw-r--r--   0 0        everyone   0,   0 Dec 31  1969 aux

As you can see by the "crw-r--r--" that the cygwin ls knows that this
is a character device.

> 
> This works in any directory.  One cannot name other files "aux".  The
> command:
> 
>   touch aux
> 
> hangs the shell.

DON'T DO THAT.  It should "hang" the shell.

> 
> I hope this information is useful.
> 
> -Dan
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If you have such a file that actually exists, you will need to fully
specify the path to remove it.  In the example you give, the file
doesn't exist.

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