On Wed, 2011-06-01 at 18:04 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
The only character that can't appear in a filename component is
'/'.
Everything else is legal, LineFeed, Tab, Del, Ctrl-C, you name it :-)
And those of us with non-Windows computers would delight in giving
Windows users files with a backslash or asterisk in the filename, such
as when I ran a BBS on an Amiga, way back in the 1990s.
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[tim@localhost ~]$ uname -r
2.6.27.25-78.2.56.fc9.i686
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