I understand that this will likely break and confuse the hell out of my system, but is it possible to name or rename a file so that it has /
s in its name (this is needed for a file which needs to go to an equally crazy server - well, sort of, it's more of a crazy workaround)? I am running Ubuntu GNOME 15.10 with GNOME 3.18, and I have tried to do this with most programs, and they either make a folder with the file because they treat what is before the /
as the folder and what is after it as the file name, or just give me an error.
Reason:
The specific reason why I need it is because I set up a server which is stubborn and now won't change it's mind about where its config file is. However I accidentally put a /
in the name of the file so it believes that the config file rather being in ~/configuration/files/config1.conf
is in ~/configuration/files/con/fig1.conf
... So you might say that I should just create a folder in files
and call it con
and then have the config file called fig1.conf
, however the server doesn't even currently allow the creation of new directories or anything really... So I think that my only hope is going to be to put the forward slash in the file name for now until it goes out of its lock down mode.