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Use of colon in filenames
- From: "C. Brian Jones" <cbjones at nortelnetworks dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Fri, 18 Apr 2003 11:30:47 -0400
- Subject: Use of colon in filenames
All,
Should attempts to create files such as "foo::bar" or "foo::bar::baz"
really cause a no such file error for 'touch', 'install', etc.?
$ touch 'foo::bar'
touch: creating `foo::bar': Invalid argument
$ touch 'foo::bar::baz'
touch: creating `foo::bar::baz': No such file or directory
$ install foo bar::baz
install: cannot create regular file `bar::baz': Invalid argument
$ install foo bar::baz::bop
install: cannot create regular file `bar::baz::bop': No such file or
directory
Any way to get the more UNIX-like behavior?
Brian
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