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    [–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago (14 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] 4 points 1 month 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 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month 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 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month 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 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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.

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