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Re: What is aux???!
- From: Reini Urban <rurban at x-ray dot at>
- To: Colin JN Breame <colin at breame dot com>
- Cc: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2004 17:04:00 +0200
- Subject: Re: What is aux???!
- References: <418256F7.2090007@breame.com>
Colin JN Breame schrieb:
Try this:
$ mkdir aux
mkdir: `aux' exists but is not a directory
$ cat aux
(hangs)
$ ./aux
(hangs)
$ ls aux
aux
$ rm aux
$
http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-specialnames.html
Using (esp. unlinking) "NUL" and other special filenames is problematic.
Use windows-special "\\.\" and "\??\" path-prefixes on Windows.
DEL \\.\c:\somedir\aux
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Reini Urban
http://xarch.tu-graz.ac.at/home/rurban/
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