no-illegal-filenames¶
Files and directories should not contain illegal characters or names so that Ansible can be checked out on any Operating System.
Illegal Characters¶
The following characters are not allowed to be used in any part of the file or directory name;
<
>
:
"
/
\
|
?
*
Any characters whose integer representations are in the range from 0 through to 31 like
\n
The following characters are not allowed to be used as the last character of a file or directory;
.
" "
(just the space character)
Illegal Names¶
The following names are not allowed to be used as the name of a file or directory excluding the extension;
CON
PRN
AUX
NUL
COM1
COM2
COM3
COM4
COM5
COM6
COM7
COM8
COM9
LPT1
LPT2
LPT3
LPT4
LPT5
LPT6
LPT7
LPT8
LPT9
For example, the file folder/COM1
, folder/COM1.txt
are illegal but
folder/COM1-file
or folder/COM1-file.txt
is allowed.