On Friday 08 October 2010 08:03:32 DaZZa wrote: > perhaps most > importantly, (l)user has been attacked with seriously large clue stick > and told to not do it again!
Why? The only "illegal" characters in file names on a UNIX or Linux file system (including ext2 and ext3) are the forward slash (because it is the path separator) and NUL (because it is the string terminator). Everything else is perfectly legitimate to use (including having a file named "-rf *", which would only catch a very careless remover of the file) -- Regards, Troy Rollo Solicitor Parry Carroll Commercial Lawyers Direct: (02) 8257 3177 Fax: (02) 9221 1375 Switch: (02) 9221 3899 E-mail: t...@parrycarroll.com.au Web: www.parrycarroll.com.au Liability limited by a scheme approved under Professional Standards Legislation This message and any attachments are confidential to Parry Carroll. If you have received it my mistake, please let us know by reply and then delete it from your system. You must not copy the message, alter it or disclose its contents to anyone. Thank you. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
