[ILUG] /dev/tty

[John McDonnell]

begin Mark Finlay quotation from 31 Jan 2002

> with * being a wild card and all im pretty sure that there cant be a
> tty* file.

which is probably why he was suspicious... There actually can be a tty*
file.... touch tty\* - the resulting file would show up as tty* in ls -l

> tty* is just everything that starts with tty.

so why would it show up in ls or find? That looked quite a bit like ls -l

> when you ran the find command.

not I, the un-named cnb at eircom.net...

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