On 2013-06-12 12:59, PhotoRoy6@xxxxxxx wrote: > > > I can see why. The * is a system word for searching for all files. i.e. > *.jpg produces a list of all files with this ending in earlier Window OS > and earlier programs. That interpretation is in the command line processor, not in the filesystem; on other systems with that convention (the whole Unix family including Linux), it's perfectly possible to have a filename with "*" in it, though it can be tricky to refer to that file from the command line :-) (not impossible, but you have to do something beyond just typing it). The only characters you can't use in Unix file and directory names are NUL and slash (slash separates directories in a path, and Unix is pretty deeply built on C-style null-terminated strings). -- David Dyer-Bennet, dd-b@xxxxxxxx; http://dd-b.net/ Snapshots: http://dd-b.net/dd-b/SnapshotAlbum/data/ Photos: http://dd-b.net/photography/gallery/ Dragaera: http://dragaera.info
