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rvba 9 months ago | parent | context | favorite | on: Ask HN: What is in C-00000291*.sys?

How is the * (star / asterisk) character allowed in the file name?

I thought such characters are forbidden by Windows.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/fileio/namin...

How did the tool even manage to create such a file?

fragmede 9 months ago | [–]

it's deleting all matching files

martyvis 9 months ago | | [–]

There was only one file matching it on my machine. The * just saves typing.

copywrong2 9 months ago | [–]

echo lol > 'l*l'; ls 'l*l'

I bet it's a glob pattern and indicates "anything"

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