On Tue, Feb 21, 2023 at 05:19:13AM +0000, Tim Woodall wrote: > On Mon, 20 Feb 2023, Albretch Mueller wrote: > > > On 2/15/23, Greg Wooledge <g...@wooledge.org> wrote: > > > > The reason why I use pipes as field delimiter is because it is an > > excellent meta character when you are working with filesystems. Pipes > > would not accepted for files or directory names for good reasons, > > anyway. > > > > tim@einstein(7):~ (none)$ touch 'i|use|pipes' > tim@einstein(7):~ (none)$ ls -l i*use* > -rw-rw-r-- 1 tim tim 0 Feb 21 05:14 'i|use|pipes' > tim@einstein(7):~ (none)$ rm i\|use\|pipes > tim@einstein(7):~ (none)$ > > AFAIR only / and nul are prohibited in file names.
In Unix-like file systems, including Debian's default ext4, this is true. I have a funny feeling Albretch might be using Microsoft file systems (FAT, NTFS) for a large chunk of his system. Those have a much larger set of restricted characters.
