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Remember: GNU/Linux and other UNIX systems can make files that are case-sensitive, Windows can't make files that are case-sensitive (lemmy.world)
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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago (14 children)

you can also use basically anything that's not / in a file name as well, it's pretty based. Meanwhile on windows you have to use SMB mappings if you don't want your directory structure to self immolate, what a good operating system.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (7 children)

I think you might even be able to get away with /s if you escape them properly in the filename.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Just tried. It processes the escape first and then finds the path with it. Essentially, making it look into a directory made by the characters before the \/.

The above was when I tried:

echo "asd" > asd\/dsa

But then I tried using Dolphin (GUI File Browser) to make a file and:

❯ ls
 1   2   3   4  'asd\⁄sad.txt'
❯ ls
1  2  3  4  asd⁄sad.txt

In the first one, the backslash is not the escape character, but part of the text.

Turns out Dolphin just replaces the forward slash with U+2044 "Fraction Slash" character, hence, not requiring any escape. I'd call that cheating, but it works well.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Turns out Dolphin just replaces the forward slash with U+2044 “Fraction Slash” character, hence, not requiring any escape. I’d call that cheating, but it works well.

called it, i knew someone would use illegal characters eventually.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

I would have a problem if a terminal app were to do something like this, but for GUI apps, it is expected for them to make stuff easier.
And I feel like, if you were to use a slash in a file name, it would most probably be either an "or" slash or a fraction slash, so the substitution is fine in my books.

illegal characters

Not sure about calling it that, considering it is a standard UTF-8 character. (0x2044 in UTF-16)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

I would have a problem if a terminal app were to do something like this, but for GUI apps, it is expected for them to make stuff easier. And I feel like, if you were to use a slash in a file name, it would most probably be either an “or” slash or a fraction slash, so the substitution is fine in my books.

it's close enough, i generally consider an "illegal" character a non typable character. Especially these alt characters that are visually hard to distinguish from others such as the forward slash for example, i believe this was the same character used for a handful of somewhat clever phishing scams.

Seems like it's fair enough to me.

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