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Re: Directory starting with ''$'\n''

Alan McKay via linux wrote on 2025-11-28 06:12:

Reminds me of when we got our first UNIX system online at Acadia
University in January 1987
If you left your terminal unattended someone might sneak over and
touch a file '*'

Today I learned that "*" is *not* a restricted character in file names.

Huh.

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