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

[Ian Malone]

On 1 September 2012 21:26, Joe Zeff <joe at zeff.us> wrote:
> 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.
>

Not invalid, just not a good idea to use them (or anything that gets
interpreted by the shell). I always avoid spaces in anything that
needs to be machinable.

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