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.
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| 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 |