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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: Filenames & dependencies
From:       Thiago Macieira <thiago.macieira () kdemail ! net>
Date:       2005-02-18 19:06:47
Message-ID: 200502181706.48088.thiago.macieira () kdemail ! net
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Andy Pieters wrote:
>Hi all
>
>Is anyone aware of people using spaces or special chars like '(*-+/) '
> in library names? Would it be possible doing so?

/ isn't allowed in filenames at all.

(, *, and ) would probably be more problem than it's worth, because of 
Makefiles. Same for $.

- is certainly used all over the place.

Aside from / and NUL, everything is allowed on Unix filesystems. But I 
don't think we're using more than the standard.

>Please note that I do not want to start a discussion about actualy using
> those characters, but I need an answer because I'm writing a script
> that's parses library names.

Just make sure it never executes or expands anything taken from the name.

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