On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 12:36 PM, Andre Majorel <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 2010-05-14 11:47 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
>
> > File names are allowed to use any sign excepted the /, NUL, * and ? in
> > Linux file names.
>
> Unix forbids exactly two characters in file names : NUL and "/".
> "*" and "?" are legal ; they just need to be quoted or escaped if
> they appear on a shell command line. Just like white space, ";",
> "(", ")", "|", "<", ">", "&", and a few others.
>
Thankfully the UNIX tradition includes properly documenting such things and
sticking with good standards. In other realms the rules sometimes change
with little or no notice.
I'm a system administrator and I encourage my users to use only letters,
numbers, single spaces, ., - and _ in filenames. It prevents a lot of
problems when copying data between OS's or file systems and when making
backups. Even if there is no problem with the OS there may be one with an
application, a file sharing protocol or the file system.
Neil
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