Bash and Spaces in File Names

On LinkedIn one can specify skills that one has as a collection of keywords. Contacts can verify these skills by vouching that one has them. A recently added feature is that one can take a 15 question multiple choice test and show a badge if the test result lies in the 0.7 quantile or above. In principle a nice idea.

Code & Zahlen

2016-07-28

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Useless File Extensions

Some programs save their data in files that end in .bin, .dat, .sav or .asc. They probably are abbreviations for the following:

Code & Zahlen

2013-06-22

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Choosing Suitable Filenames

Technically, in the EXT4 file system, the only characters that are not allowed is the / and \0 character. I think that : is not allowed as well, in order to separate paths in variables like $PATH.