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Use of colon in filenames


All,

Should attempts to create files such as "foo::bar" or "foo::bar::baz" really cause a no such file error for 'touch', 'install', etc.?

$ touch 'foo::bar'
touch: creating `foo::bar': Invalid argument

$ touch 'foo::bar::baz'
touch: creating `foo::bar::baz': No such file or directory

$ install foo bar::baz
install: cannot create regular file `bar::baz': Invalid argument

$ install foo bar::baz::bop
install: cannot create regular file `bar::baz::bop': No such file or directory


Any way to get the more UNIX-like behavior?

Brian


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