Re: Fedora NTFS-3G happily writes files with invalid chars in filename?

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On 09/01/2012 12:20 PM, Joe Zeff wrote:
On 09/01/2012 11:28 AM, Fernando Cassia wrote:
Now I connect the external usb NTFS-formatted drive to my old xpsp3
running netbook and stumble upon a file (a folder actually under
.cache\vlc\art\artistalbum\The Rapture\How Deep is Your Love?
that ABSOLUTELY can´t be removed from WinXP, as windows thinks
question marks are an "invalid character" in a file or folder name.

Of course it's an invalid character for XP, just as it is for Linux. The question mark is a wildcard, used to represent one unknown character, just as an asterisk is used to represent any number of unknown characters. Thus, test?.txt will match test1.txt or test2.txt but not test12.txt. Have you tried putting quotation marks around the name to keep it from being expanded?

Actually, '?' is not "an invalid character" in a Linux filename. Only "/" and the NULL character (0) are invalid in filenames.

Regards,

John


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