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Re: How to make a directory name with '/' in it?
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Chris F.A. Johnson |
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Re: How to make a directory name with '/' in it? |
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Sun, 16 May 2010 11:51:20 -0400 (EDT) |
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Alpine 2.00 (LMD 1167 2008-08-23) |
On Sun, 16 May 2010, Peng Yu wrote:
> I tried the following command to create a dir with '/' in the name.
> But it only create a directory with name 'm'. Is there a way to make a
> directory with '/' in the name?
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> mkdir m\/\/
There are two characters that cannot be in a file or directory
name: / and NUL.
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