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`mkdir` will fail on Windows if the filename contains a colon

Open dnadales opened this issue 8 years ago • 4 comments

When executing mkdir "foo: bar Filesystem.createDirectory will fail:

*** Exception: CreateDirectory "F:\\": does not exist (The system cannot find the path specified.)

Now, this is an issue with Filesystem but since it is deprecated I don't think this will be fixed. I don't know what's the best course of action here.

Related https://github.com/Gabriel439/Haskell-Turtle-Library/issues/254

dnadales avatar Aug 28 '17 12:08 dnadales

So like I mentioned in that issue I may take over maintainership of system-filepath soon so I can fix issues like these (or minimally just accept pull requests). However, I need to sort out some other tasks first before taking this on. Give me about a month before I can address this

Gabriella439 avatar Aug 28 '17 15:08 Gabriella439

Sure. This is a very minor issue, no need to rush. If I can help somehow let me know.

dnadales avatar Aug 29 '17 08:08 dnadales

: is not a valid character to use in Windows filer or folder names:

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So then, what would the solution be?

freeman42x avatar May 28 '20 00:05 freeman42x

AFAIK a lot of these restrictions are only in the UI, and can be bypassed by using the raw APIs.

L-as avatar May 06 '21 10:05 L-as