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[–] 4 points 7 months ago* (3 children)

I'm pretty sure all the Linux filesystems I've ever used don't care about tilde. You might have to escape it or quote it if you're typing it into a shell, since the shell might try to replace it with your homedir, but I don't think the FS cares.

On my ext4 FS I was able to touch me~ow just now with no issues.

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago (2 children)

    It's something to do with the extraction not liking it, when I run the same disc through the same program on windows it runs fine but doing it on Linux throws an error.

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    Yeah it's the program, ~ is not an issue in filenames, Vim even uses it as a character in the temp file it creates when editing a file. Is a VM something that could work for that specific usecase? I know I have one just to upddate my logitech devices

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