Re: Can one use the @ sign in a directory name

Rock was all like, you know, and then said something like a ...

I have a friend who wants to have a linux directory name john@charlies.

I said it would be better as johnatcharlies as I feel the @ sign is not
part of the directory naming protocol.

I dunno about the protocol forbidding an "@". I just did "mkdir cmo@home"
and there it is: It doesn't appear when I do "ls -l c*:, but if I do "ls"
it does. And, in Thunar it's there and available for use.

What should not, or cannot, be used are: angle brackets, braces, brackets,
parentheses, dbl. quotes, single quotes, asterisks, question marks, pipe
symbols, slashes, carets, exclamation points, pound signs, dollar signs,
ampersands, and titles. It's a good idea to avoid spaces and hyphens.
Periods and underscores are good for separating words and numbering
schemes. An example "1_would_be.better_this.way" than "1 doing-it
like-this".

HTH

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