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Joerg Schaible commented on IO-289:
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It's unfortunately not enough to check for illegal characters. "aux.txt" or
"nul.txt" are also illegal because of the file's basename matching a device
name.
> Cleaning illegal characters from a file name
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> Key: IO-289
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/IO-289
> Project: Commons IO
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: Utilities
> Affects Versions: 2.1
> Reporter: Emmanuel Bourg
> Priority: Minor
> Fix For: 2.2
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> FilenameUtils is missing a method to remove illegal characters from a file
> name. For example on Windows these characters are not allowed: /!|><*:?".
> The characters could be either removed or replaced by another one (a space or
> an underscore for example).
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