phantom file "aux" under bash b19

Michael Hirmke mh@mike.franken.de
Sun Apr 5 08:36:00 GMT 1998


Hi Daniel,

>
>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".

aux is the a standard DOS "device" representing the keyboard.
You can't create, delete oder modify it with regular means.

There are a few of those special files: con, com<x>, lpt<x>, ...

Bye.
Michael.
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