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.

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