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by dwaite 640 days ago
pretty common on UNIXes; you can also have forward slashes in filenames. They just have to be escaped to differentiate.
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I don't know of any Unix that allows forward slashes in file names. On macOS you can use : which is displayed as / in Finder, but in exchange you can't put a : in file names...