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| ====== Characters in file names ====== | ====== Characters in file names ====== | ||
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| + | Note : this page often uses "Unix" for non-Windows systems, because Mac OS and Linux are both Unix-based systems. And the Web standard also originated on Unix systems, so for example, it's path separator is the same "/". | ||
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| + | ===== Path separators ===== | ||
| + | * / in Unix and on the web. Windows also accpts it in some contexts, but sometimes not. | ||
| + | * \ in Windows. But it's an escape character in Unix. | ||
| + | * : was used in the old Mac OS up to version 9. See the [[#Mac : / confusion]] below. | ||
| ===== Escape characters ===== | ===== Escape characters ===== | ||
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| So it lists the obvious control characters 0 to 31 (x00-x1F), plus | So it lists the obvious control characters 0 to 31 (x00-x1F), plus | ||
| - | * " echo test > " | + | * " |
| * * | * * | ||
| * / | * / | ||
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| * . dot at the start of a file or directory name makes it "hidden" in Unix. It will not show in normal directory listings and file managers. | * . dot at the start of a file or directory name makes it "hidden" in Unix. It will not show in normal directory listings and file managers. | ||
| + | ===== Mac : / confusion ===== | ||
| + | Mac OS in the eighties and nineties (up to version 9) was not a Unix-based system, and used ":" as a path separator. "/" had no special meaning for Macs, so it was accepted in file names like "report 25/3/1992". | ||
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| + | When Mac replaced it's OS with Unix, "/" became an invalid character in file names, but on the other hand, ":" was now a perfectly normal character. So it decided to silently replace all "/" with ":", and made it's graphical interface handle the translation invisibly. So you can still see this "report 25/3/1992" file in the Finder, and you can have the impression that you can still write a file named "report 25/12/2019". However, the real file name in the file system will be "report 25:3:1992", and some Mac programs will only see the real file name and not "translate" it on the fly. | ||
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