How to deal with colons in paths?
Created by: watafalk
Since :
is a delimiter in <scheme>:<reference>
, it is forbidden to create a file with a colon in its name directly:
$ touch a:b
error: other os error
but there is a way to bypass it:
$ touch file:/root/a:b
$ ls
error: other os error
$ rm file:/root/a:b # problem solved
there are also files from the unix world, mostly the manpages for perl, find /usr/share/man -name "*:*"
shows lots of files.