> Disallowed characters
> < > ” / \ | ? * Never allowed
A friend once somehow crated a file called <HTML>.
I don't know how, but he also couldn't delete or do anything with it.
> < > ” / \ | ? * Never allowed
A friend once somehow crated a file called <HTML>.
I don't know how, but he also couldn't delete or do anything with it.
Turns out you could create files with "illegal" (and invisible) characters in the filename. The standard OS utilities would not allow them, but the underlying file system did not care. So you could write a short program to do it.
I had to write a utility just to delete it.
Connecting from another operating system that allowed names like that to be corrected to a Windows share.
There are a few other possibilities where you boot to Linux using a FS driver for NTFS that allows you to create illegal file names. And/or odd things like WSL/Cygwin.