On Thu, 17 Jul 2014 12:58:09 +1000
Russell Coker <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Thu, 17 Jul 2014 12:40:50 Jason White wrote:
> > I always make sure that files on my system don't have names
> > containing spaces.
> 
> Best to avoid all punctuation characters other than a '.' or '-' in
> the middle of a file name (never use a '-' as the first character).
> 
> In theory the only character you must avoid in a file name is '/',
> but in practice almost every other punctuation character than '.' and
> '-' has the potential to make things difficult.  That said a '~' is
> OK as long as it's not the first character in a name, a '+' is
> probably OK and a ',' has looking like a '.' as it's biggest problem.
> 

Just out of interest I regularly use '_', and have not had a problem.
Russell, is this a character you would say can cause trouble?
What sort of trouble does it cause?

-- 
Hugh
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