Unix file names illegal characters

Not exactly a character-based restriction, but is a consequence of character-based rules. Add a comment. The Overflow Blog. Podcast Making Agile work for data science. Stack Gives Back Featured on Meta. New post summary designs on greatest hits now, everywhere else eventually.

Linked Related In the realm of cross-platform file sharing, sometimes the end users are not aware of the limitations posed by the operating system.

This article will explain which characters can cause problems with files that use these characters. The two systems have much in common, but the characters permitted in a file or folder name may differ. In the conventions listed below, it is true for both systems unless otherwise specified.

Specifically there are cases where NTFS does not have the limitations see note below. Thread: Linux file names: Forbidden characters? November 3rd, , AM 1. Join Date Sep Posts Linux file names: Forbidden characters?

Sorry for a newbie question, but can anyone tell me what if any characters are forbidden in Linux file names? Windows does not allow and of the following Also, anyone happen to know the case for the MacOS as well? November 3rd, , AM 2. Show Threads. Show Posts. Invalid Characters in the file. Registered User. Join Date: Jan I am working on AIX. We ftp files to a database. The flat files are having thousands of records and each record is having some 50 to 60 characters there are fields having certain character length.

The record separator is a new line and there is no field seperator. How can I remove these invalid or special characters to creep in the records? Please help me to find the logic in the shell sripting.. Administrator Emeritus. Join Date: Aug Code :. Thanks for the reply Perderabo. Attached is an example in this regard I need some test data and this is one way to demo a command.