On Thu, 17 Jul 2014 12:58:09 +1000 Russell Coker <russell@coker.com.au> wrote:
On Thu, 17 Jul 2014 12:40:50 Jason White wrote:
I always make sure that files on my system don't have names containing spaces.
Best to avoid all punctuation characters other than a '.' or '-' in the middle of a file name (never use a '-' as the first character).
In theory the only character you must avoid in a file name is '/', but in practice almost every other punctuation character than '.' and '-' has the potential to make things difficult. That said a '~' is OK as long as it's not the first character in a name, a '+' is probably OK and a ',' has looking like a '.' as it's biggest problem.
Just out of interest I regularly use '_', and have not had a problem. Russell, is this a character you would say can cause trouble? What sort of trouble does it cause? -- Hugh