hey
dz nebody know why these characters:
\ / : * ? " < > |
are not allowed to be used in filenames in win?
wats diff about them ?
These all charactors have special meaning in OS.
\ / - File System delimiters
: - because it is used to specify mount points (drives eg C: )
* ? - they are wildchars (eg dir *.* dir *.?xt)
“ – it is used to specify long file names (file names with space) eg copy "my long file" e:
< > - streams redirection (eg dir>textfile.exe)
| - pipe (output of one process is input of other) (eg dir |more)
They are the characters that Windows uses for its own purpose such as getting access to folders, networks, access a mounted drive, and also for various wildcard characters which are used mostly for searching purposes.
Hence it refuses to name any file with these extensions
cool...never thought of that...thanks aadipa and rajkumar_personal
Always welcome buddy !
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