Saving (unusual) linux filenames

Nobody nobody at nowhere.com
Tue Aug 31 20:25:37 EDT 2010


On Tue, 31 Aug 2010 18:49:33 +0000, Grant Edwards wrote:

>> How many filenames contain control characters?
> 
> How many filenames contain ","?  Not many,

Unless you only ever deal with "Unix folk", it's not /that/ uncommon to
encounter filenames which are essentially complete sentences, punctuation
included.

FWIW, I've found that a significant proportion of "why can't I burn this
file to a CD" queries are because the Joliet extension to ISO-9660 "only"
allows 64 characters in a filename.




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