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I'm archiving some of my Audio CDs to FLAC and I would like the album titles to include the catalog number and the location plus country, like so:

/Music/
  Laura Branigan/
    1982 - Branigan [19289-2 (250 772) ~ US 1985]

The catalog number already includes the dash (as you can see in 19289-2), so using that as a separator later on doesn't make sense. I was thinking about using the tilde ~ as a separator instead, to separate the catalog number from location/year.

Will that naming convention cause any trouble in the filesystem?

Zoltan King
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In general in Linux ~ undergoes tilde expansion, which is suppressed by quotes (or other means of escaping like \). Since you have spaces in file names, you will use quotes anyhow, I gather. And you should do this by default anyhow. So it should be ok. Same as here:

$ touch "~"
$ ls -l "~"
-rw-r----- 1 tomasz tomasz 0 Aug  6 18:12 '~'