Invalid Characters

[mritter0]

I can find a list of invalid characters for CrossDOS filenames
http://wiki.amigaos.net/wiki/AmigaOS_Ma ... h_CrossDOS

but not for standard Amiga filenames. Is there a list?

[Spektro]

Hello mritter0,
I don't think there is. I think path characters (colon and slash) are the only invalid characters. Pattern matching characters are valid (?, #, %, |, ~, *, [, ], (, ), ') as well as double quotation marks.

[broadblues]

Even colon is not invalid in filename , just in a device or volume name. Like wise "/" is is invalid in a file name but not in a volume name.

for example

9.AmigaOS4:> echo blah >ram:foo:
9.AmigaOS4:> list ram:
Directory "ram:" on Tuesday 23-Jun-15
foo: 5 ----rwed Today 11:01:12
Disk.info 76546 ----rwed Today 10:52:26
> ENVARC:Sys/def_RAM.info
Clipboards Dir ----rwed Today 10:52:18
T Dir ----rwed Today 10:52:46
2 files - 74K bytes - 2 directories - 8 blocks used
9.AmigaOS4:>


It's should be avoided though! As should the pattern matching characeters and spaces unless you *really* need them.

[mritter0]

Both good and "bad". I was doing my testing in Shell and was getting some errors from names like

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`.c
-.c
=.c

But from within Filer it will accept those names. The only invalid 2 are : and / for file names.

[broadblues]

name like =.c might well need quoting in the shell

wrong

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8.AmigaOS4:> echo foo >=.c
foo >.c

right

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8.AmigaOS4:> echo foo >"=.c"
8.AmigaOS4:>