Well, ':' it seems to allowed. From https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/dd317748(v=vs.85).aspx[...] In both NTFS and FAT file systems, the special file name characters are: '\', '/', '.', '?', and '*' [...]
On Fri, 10 Nov 2017, trebol wrote:
On Fri, 10 Nov 2017, Martin Husemann wrote:On Fri, Nov 10, 2017 at 10:21:51AM +0000, trebol wrote:Hello, I'd appreciate it if someone could tell me how to copy a file from a ntfs partition with a colon in its name. This character is used to get files attributes, and I can't find a way to avoid it.I may remember wrong, but ":" is not an allowed character in ntfs file names, isn't it? Reserved characters are something like <>:"/\|?* plus anything with the char value between 0 and 31. MartinHello Martin, to be honest with you, I have no idea. I can't remember the last time I actually use a windows os. This is a pen drive from a friend I have to copy some files from. Maybe those files were created with linux. I'm complete sure that you can create a file in linux with colons in its name on a ntfs partition. If this is wrong, then is a linux's problem, forget about it.I'll search for info.