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FWIW, I have never wanted to put a \ in a filename, but I have often wanted to put a / in a (pretty) filename, as / is used in standard English all the time; I
by saurik 3y ago
FWIW, I have never wanted to put a \ in a filename, but I have often wanted to put a / in a (pretty) filename, as / is used in standard English all the time; I then find myself using "-" instead and that makes me unhappy. I'd much rather have seen ^ as the escape character and \ as the path separator.
- hollerith 3y agoYou can put slashes in filenames in MacOS's Finder app. If you use ls to view the filename, you'll see colons where Finder shows slashes.
- tracker1 3y agoWant to really mess with someone, do that on a mac file share on a windows server... You won't be able to do anything to that file or directory from Windows. Not sure if it's still an issue, but definitely was in the NT4/Win2k days.
- saurik 3y agoYeah, because Mac used to : as the separator... but, : is also an extremely commonly-used character that I have off wanted to put in a filename.