Comment by distant_hat
4 years ago
I had a guy in my team use forward slashes in filenames. Terrible idea, caused all sorts of weird issues.
4 years ago
I had a guy in my team use forward slashes in filenames. Terrible idea, caused all sorts of weird issues.
But nice for testing. I spend a few month on Windows while doing a Django project and found a number of bugs no one else discovered because they used Mac or Linux.
How was this possible? None of the mainstream operating systems allow this.
via GUI in OS X.
Ah so that’s not really putting a slash in the name on disk - finder is just displaying the colon that way - it substitutes with a colon for historical reasons that have to do with pre OSX MacOS (but you can see if you create a file from a program or the command line with a colon in it, it will display as a slash in finder). It shouldn’t cause any problems on its own on the system - but the colon is troublesome if you have to interact with DOS/Windows lineage machines.
Did you mean backslashes? I don't know if any filesystem/OS supports forward slashes in filenames
OS X does in the GUI; they're isomorphic to ‘:’ at the UNIX level. (The Mac used ‘:’ as the directory separator.)
And a : in a file name at the GUI level gets turned into a dash! I just tried to name a text file "Foo/Bar 10:01.rtf" and it changed it to "Foo/Bar 10-01.rtf"!
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