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How would I go about creating a filename with invalid characters such as :?>?
Yes I know it is not allowed, but I want to do it anyways. Any workarounds?
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2A colon is only allowed in Windows 7 GI edition. – iglvzx Aug 14 '12 at 02:44
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1Note that if you succeed, you won't be able to access the file from any normal Windows application. – Harry Johnston Aug 14 '12 at 03:34
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Use one of these: ﹕：︓꞉ – Xonatron Jan 11 '22 at 21:44
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No you cannot.
This isn't a case of escaping the character to get around a GUI or command line limitation, this is a restriction in the kernel. The colon is used for identifying the file stream you are accessing.
Your options are to strip the colons on the source, or replace them with a unicode character that looks like a colon but isn't.
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Apparently Linux has no trouble saving files with
:in the name to an NTFS file system. Not sure if WSL2 has safeties to prevent this, but you can always boot Linux separately (for example from a live USB). However, Windows will not be able to access or even rename such files. – mtraceur Oct 13 '23 at 16:22