Fedora NTFS-3G happily writes files with invalid chars in filename?

Joe Zeff joe at zeff.us
Sat Sep 1 20:26:10 UTC 2012


On 09/01/2012 01:13 PM, Roberto Ragusa wrote:
> You say it is invalid, then you say you have to escape it.
> It is perfectly valid in Linux. You just have to escape it to avoid
> confusion inside the shell (no issue with GUI programs).

Not quite.  I know that in Linux you can get around some invalid 
characters, such as spaces, by quoting the name so that the shell knows 
to pass it on to the program as one string so I suggested trying it in 
XP to see if it worked.


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