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, I think that the only character that you can't use is /. All of the other chararacters that you listed (and others such as space) can be created if you escape them. For example: mkdir \! mkdir " " should both work. -- Jim Crumley |Twin Cities Linux Users Group Mailing List (TCLUG) crumley at fields.space.umn.edu |Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota Ruthless Debian Zealot |http://www.mn-linux.org/ Never laugh at live dragons |Dmitry's free,Jon's next? http://faircopyright.org