Linux/Unix naming conventions...

[sgordon at kenan.com (Seth Gordon)]

"John Chambers,,,781-647-1813" wrote:

> The only characters that have special meaning
> to the Unix file system are slash and null.

Not to disagree, but to supplement: some utilities assume, by default, that file
names don't have any spaces in them.  (For example, they will interpret a group of
words separated by spaces as a group of filenames.)  Therefore, creating files
with embedded spaces is Generally Not Done, although it's technically possible,
and there are ways to coerce the rest of Unix into treating them properly.

--seth


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