file names mixed environement

[mmaleh]

Hi All,
I was hoping to get some feed back on mixed environment file name structures. If you are working in a mixed Linux and Windows environment are their any special characters you should not use in folder/file names? example right now all of our project folders are named: 'project number' - 'project name' (334-clientname) something like that. obv. all of this is done over a network so truncating could be an issue. not sure. thanks!
-m

 

[Chacalinc]

My company is windows based but fortunatelly I use linux (Ubuntu, debian based } ). The only issue is when we use accented characters: á é í ó ú and ñ (I speak spanish). There is no problem in console mode (text), the problem is when I use the nautilus in order to browse the filesystems and shared folders from our file server.

Cheers.

 

[SamBones]

The characters that will cause the most pain are spaces (' '), and any character that has meaning is a shell ('$', '#', '~', '>', etc). These are legal in Windows, but cause problems in *NIX. Pretty much try to keep the allowable characters to numbers, alphabetic characters, dashes ('-'), underscores ('_'), and dots ('.').

You should also standardise on upper or lower case. Windows is case insensitive, Linux is not. That is, '[tt]File.txt[/tt]' and '[tt]file.txt[/tt]' are the same file from Window's, but not Linux.

Hope this helps.

 

[mmaleh]

Thanks guys!!!
-marc