[BLU] Re: Linux/Unix naming conventions...

[david at kramer.ne.mediaone.net (David Kramer)]

On Thu, 23 Dec 1999, Seth Gordon wrote:

> "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.

Also files beginning with a period are treated special by some parts of
UNIX and some applications.  However, you are right in that the
kernel/filesystem don't care.

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