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From: Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.shell
Subject: Re: Default PATH setting - reduce to something more sensible?
Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2025 00:02:59 -0000 (UTC)
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On Sun, 26 Jan 2025 14:49:16 +0100, Janis Papanagnou wrote:

> To my best knowledge using '/' as part of a file or directory name is
> (as the '\0') prohibited by the operating system at a very low level.

But you can use “∕” in a file/directory name.