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How would I go about creating a filename with invalid characters such as :?>?
Yes I know it is not allowed, but I want to do it anyways. Any workarounds?
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No you cannot.
This isn't a case of escaping the character to get around a GUI or command line limitation, this is a restriction in the kernel. The colon is used for identifying the file stream you are accessing.
Your options are to strip the colons on the source, or replace them with a unicode character that looks like a colon but isn't.
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