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Comparison of forbidden symbols and names in different FS's
What symbols and (maybe) names are forbidden on different files systems available in modern Linux distribution?
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Bash autocomplete gives different file name than ls
An incredibly strange thing just happened. Through a serious typo, I entered
cp filename.xsl .^?~
Yeah, that's right, dot-caret-questionmark-tilde! Truth is stranger than fiction.
It gets weirder. ...
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Can non-canonicalized forms of filesystem paths be significant? (eg. “foo//bar”, “foo/./bar”, and “foo/../bar”)
I have a script for building a particular flavor of GCC cross-compiler. Throughout the script there are many paths that are not in canonical form, such as duplicate path separators (/xxx/foo//bar/yyy) ...
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Several questions about file-system character encoding on linux
Due to a lot of file exchange works between Windows (GBK encoding) and Linux (UTF-8 encoding), it will encounter character encoding issues easily, such as:
zip/tar files whose name contains chinese ...
