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Post #1376119

2026-04-05 15:37 UTC

@jak2k traditionally, any byte besides '\0' and '/'. This has widely been regarded as a bad idea, but here we are.

Replies (5)

  • @rl_dane@polymaths.social 2026-04-05 16:37

    @stylus @jak2k #UNIX: THE FREEDOM TO BREAK SHIZ.

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  • @steeph@queerchen.de 2026-04-05 16:43

    @stylus @jak2k "This had made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move."

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  • @steeph@queerchen.de 2026-04-05 16:59

    @stylus It's kind of amazing that I've never played around with that. I will not get bored tonight! What you can have in file names is multi-byte characters. There is a forward slash in unicode that can be combined with another character to overlay it. Like this: E̸ (U+0338) If you combine that with a space, it looks like this: ̸The depiction depends on the font of course. In my terminal it looks exactly like a normal slash: / $ touch 'abc ̸def' $ ls -l abc* -rw-r--r-- 1 steeph steeph 0 5. Apr 18:57 'abc ̸def' @jak2k

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  • @rrwo@infosec.exchange 2026-04-11 16:59

    @stylus @jak2k Filenames with pipes can be a source of amusement.

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  • @riley@toot.cat 2026-04-27 09:52

    @stylus \xFF is prohibited in macOS filenames. Pop quiz: why? Spoiler: / \ / \ / \ / \ / \ / \ / \ / \ / \ / \ / \ / \ / \ As a hint, so is \xC0. @jak2k

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