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It's not a forward slash or a NUL byte. And it is a printable character. Doesn't seem so wrong to me.
by cordite 10y ago
It's not a forward slash or a NUL byte. And it is a printable character. Doesn't seem so wrong to me.
- tamana 10y agoA colon is a forward slash on MacOS
- stevekemp 10y agoSome tools assume particular characters mean things. For example GNU tar will assume if you find ":" in the filename of the archive it's marks a hostname..
- brobinson 10y agoUse --force-local to bypass this issue. I got hit by this recently. :)
- cygx 10y agoIt's used as separator in various places on *nix (eg PATH).
- ygra 10y agoSo are semicolons on Windows, yet still legal in file names. For PATH you can just quote the ones containing the separator (at least on Windows).
- cygx 10y agoTraditionally, there's no way to quote in PATH on *nix. I do not believe that's changed, so if you cannot just change the name, you'd need to use a workaround like creating a colon-free symlink.