Question mark (?) in file name..

Julio Biason julio.biason at terra.com.br
Sun Apr 10 13:33:47 UTC 2005


On Sun, 2005-04-10 at 19:47 +0800, Senectus . wrote:
> Just had a very strange thing where I couldn't copy or move a file
> from Ubuntu to a usb key because it had a question mark in the file
> name..
> I could copy locally but not onto the key.. why would that be?

I don't have a USB key, but... does it use a FAT or FAT-like filesystem?
AFAIK, those filesystems doesn't support special chars like '?' e '*' on
filenames (but they are accepted on Linux filesystems).

-- 
Julio Biason <julio.biason at terra.com.br>





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