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Timeline for Unix file naming convention

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Jun 26, 2013 at 21:45 comment added user More to the point, most *nix systems only disallow two specific characters in file names: the / path separator, and the \0 (ASCII zero) string terminator.
Jun 20, 2011 at 12:13 comment added l0b0 The list is actually a lot longer, including control and non-ASCII characters. Yes, you can have a backspace as part of a *nix file name.
Feb 14, 2011 at 12:48 comment added Jürgen A. Erhard Of course, you can't even use "/" in filenames. Everything else is possible. And if you want to make it hard to access, even useful ;-)
Feb 13, 2011 at 14:06 history answered Istvan CC BY-SA 2.5