Subject: Re: phantom file "aux" under bash b19
From: [email-masked] (Larry Hall)

6 Apr 1998 04:53:49 -0700
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To: [email-masked] (Daniel Karipides), [email-masked]

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...

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