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cannot make a directory called "aux"
- From: Troy Hicks <tahicks at netzero dot net>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Mon, 9 Feb 2004 06:08:43 +0000 (UTC)
- Subject: cannot make a directory called "aux"
This is a strange problem.
Here are the basics:
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in your home directory (or any directory from cygwin) try to "mkdir aux". For
me this fails with the following complaint:
$ mkdir aux
mkdir: `aux' exists but is not a directory
Anyone seen/know of a problem like this? I'm running WinXP with cygwin:
$ uname -a
CYGWIN_NT-5.1 gw600 1.5.5(0.94/3/2) 2003-09-20 16:31 i686 unknown unknown
Cygwin
More info
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in the same directory in which mkdir aux was attempted ls -al give the
following (note no aux file, directory or otherwise):
$ ls -al
total 12
drwxrwxrwx+ 4 Troy A. None 0 Feb 8 19:04 .
drwxrwxrwx+ 3 Troy A. None 0 Jan 31 12:29 ..
-rw------- 1 Troy A. None 6459 Feb 7 13:19 .bash_history
-rwxr-xr-x 1 Troy A. None 533 Jan 31 11:10 .bash_profile
-rwxr-xr-x 1 Troy A. None 625 Jan 31 11:10 .bashrc
-rw------- 1 Troy A. None 188 Feb 6 12:52 .cvspass
-rw------- 1 Troy A. None 286 Feb 7 11:16 .history
-rwxr-xr-x 1 Troy A. None 267 Jan 31 11:10 .inputrc
drwxr-xr-x+ 2 Troy A. None 0 Feb 8 22:02 .ncftp
drwx------+ 2 Troy A. None 0 Feb 9 00:28 .ssh
I ran into the problem when trying to cvs co a source tree that had aux as a
subdirectory down several levels from the top.
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