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    Remember: GNU/Linux and other UNIX systems can make files that are case-sensitive, Windows can't make files that are case-sensitive (lemmy.world)
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    [–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago (3 children)

    you can also use basically anything that's not / in a file name as well, it's pretty based. Meanwhile on windows you have to use SMB mappings if you don't want your directory structure to self immolate, what a good operating system.

    [–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

    That's a great feature, actually, it saves you from using Windows

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

    true my mistake, how could i forget this.

    [–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

    I recently renamed a few movie files to something with ':'. That worked fine on Linux, but lead to some issues on windows. With a lot of errors from next cloud for file sync and me not being able to rename them without booting back to Linux. Fun stuff

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

    if you're using samba file sharing across OS's (like you should) you should use something called catia:mappings in order to solve that problem. It means shit like colon will be mapped to a different character, but there are some sane mappings out there that you can use.

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

    It wasn't a file share, I have one of my drives mounted in Linux and in Windows as a general storage drive in a dualboot system

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

    oh, that's rough. Yeah no i would still recommend using samba for that tbh.

    [–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    I think you might even be able to get away with /s if you escape them properly in the filename.

    [–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

    Just tried. It processes the escape first and then finds the path with it. Essentially, making it look into a directory made by the characters before the \/.

    The above was when I tried:

    echo "asd" > asd\/dsa

    But then I tried using Dolphin (GUI File Browser) to make a file and:

    ❯ ls
 1   2   3   4  'asd\⁄sad.txt'
❯ ls
1  2  3  4  asd⁄sad.txt

    In the first one, the backslash is not the escape character, but part of the text.

    Turns out Dolphin just replaces the forward slash with U+2044 "Fraction Slash" character, hence, not requiring any escape. I'd call that cheating, but it works well.

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

    Turns out Dolphin just replaces the forward slash with U+2044 “Fraction Slash” character, hence, not requiring any escape. I’d call that cheating, but it works well.

    called it, i knew someone would use illegal characters eventually.

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

    I would have a problem if a terminal app were to do something like this, but for GUI apps, it is expected for them to make stuff easier.
    And I feel like, if you were to use a slash in a file name, it would most probably be either an "or" slash or a fraction slash, so the substitution is fine in my books.

    illegal characters

    Not sure about calling it that, considering it is a standard UTF-8 character. (0x2044 in UTF-16)

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

    I would have a problem if a terminal app were to do something like this, but for GUI apps, it is expected for them to make stuff easier. And I feel like, if you were to use a slash in a file name, it would most probably be either an “or” slash or a fraction slash, so the substitution is fine in my books.

    it's close enough, i generally consider an "illegal" character a non typable character. Especially these alt characters that are visually hard to distinguish from others such as the forward slash for example, i believe this was the same character used for a handful of somewhat clever phishing scams.

    Seems like it's fair enough to me.

    [–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

    i'm not sure if you're allowed to escape the / character, i feel like it's blatantly illegal. But you could use the funny character set trolling thing instead, where you use a not forward slash instead. (not the \)

    [–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

    I'm fairly confident MacOS allows it, I've seen people do some Utterly Cursed shit in MacOS, but idk about Linux

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

    maybe on macos, that might be funny, it's probably fucky over there for some other reason anyway.

    Im pretty sure it's just explicitly illegal in linux though.