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amr osama
amr osama

Reputation: 1159

? in my file name

is there any way to write ? mark in a file name

Upvotes: 1

Views: 276

Answers (6)

Yuri Astrakhan
Yuri Astrakhan

Reputation: 10015

According to the NTFS article in wiki, it is possible to use other characters:

In Posix namespace, any UTF-16 code unit (case sensitive) except U+0000 (NUL) and / (slash)

I don't know if you must have a separated partition for that, or a different API calls into the POSIX system would allow you to use special characters.

Upvotes: 1

NoThx
NoThx

Reputation:

Yes, you can write ? in a file name just like you can have a file without a name and only an extension.

This would require an FTP upload or opening the media in ASCII format.

Upvotes: 0

Michael Burr
Michael Burr

Reputation: 340306

I seem to remember that you could do something like this way back when with MS-DOS if you used one of the v1.x functions (using an FCB instead of a file handle). I wonder if any even remotely recent versions of Windows would successfully run such a beast (assuming that I'm event right about DOS letting you do it)?

Drop a note if you decide to give it a try (if you can even dig up the tools).

Upvotes: 1

Chris S.
Chris S.

Reputation: 163

It is possible on the Linux and OSX file systems, although I am pretty sure that Windows does not permit this.

Upvotes: 0

Otávio Décio
Otávio Décio

Reputation: 74290

No, since it is a wildcard such as * is.

See here:

Use any character in the current code page for a name, including Unicode characters and characters in the extended character set (128–255), except for the following:

* The following reserved characters:

  < > : " / \ | ? *
* Integer value zero, sometimes referred to as the ASCII NUL character.
* Characters whose integer representations are in the range from 1 through 31,except for streams. For more information about file streams, see File Streams.

Upvotes: 4

JaredPar
JaredPar

Reputation: 755131

On a windows platform? No this is an invalid character for names in the windows file system.

The Wikipedia entry on file names has a pretty extensive breakdown on what characters are reserved for various operating systems and file system combos. Here is the link

Upvotes: 11

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