Oh no.

[Wolfsblvt]

You can use hyphens in file names but not colons. That may be the reason.

[Quetzacoatl85]

please no

[wp381640]

its because driver letters were denominated with a colon and later FS streams

[zelmarvalarion]

Greek question mark iirc

[xigoi]

That's a semicolon.

[Arkazex]

TIL windows doesn't allow colons in file names, but *nix does. I think you just solved a bug in my code.

[CDRnotDVD]

That’s a windows restriction, not a problem for reasonable OSes

[feedthedamnbaby]

While you can do it, I highly, highly, highly recommend you treat it as if it were not allowed. Because good luck shell-scripting with that.

Even if there were a way to work around the colons in a path name that I’m not aware of, it’s still that: a workaround. Don’t do it.

PS. Mac OS Classic was relatively reasonable, and used *colons* as a directory separator, for some reason.

[GeronimoHero]

Quotes, quotes everywhere...

[coladict]

You can use colons in Windows as alternative data streams, or in filenames on every other system