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Did you mean backslashes? I don't know if any filesystem/OS supports forward slashes in filenames

• kps 5y ago
  OS X does in the GUI; they're isomorphic to ‘:’ at the UNIX level. (The Mac used ‘:’ as the directory separator.)
  • rootbear 5y ago
    And a : in a file name at the GUI level gets turned into a dash! I just tried to name a text file "Foo/Bar 10:01.rtf" and it changed it to "Foo/Bar 10-01.rtf"!
    • kps 5y ago
      In that case the GUI is merely changing the file name you type; in a shell you'll see it as "Foo:Bar 10-01.rtf".