Question mark (?) in file name..

[Larry Grover]

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?

Most (all?) usb keys come formated in fat32.  "?" is an illegal 
character in a fat32 filename, so unless you've reformatted the usb 
key to a different filesystem, this is probably your problem.

There are several other characters which are legal in ext2/3 but 
illegal in fat32 and ntfs (the common windows filesystems).  You can 
find all the details if you do a google search on "fat32 illegal 
character".

Regards,
Larry