On Tue, Nov 05, 2002 at 02:15:37AM -0600, Mark Courtney wrote: > > Can someone please tell me what "Special" characters can not be used in > directory names? > > Here's what I have found from experimentation: > ~ - tilde > ` - backtick > ! - exclamation > / - duh > Actually, those are fine (except /): mkdir \~\!\\\' drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 1024 Nov 5 07:33 ~!\' you merely need to escape the characters. > Those are the obvious ones anyway. I thought it would be faster to ask > than sitting here and trying them all. > > Thanks -- Matthew S. Hallacy FUBAR, LART, BOFH Certified http://www.poptix.net GPG public key 0x01938203