Question

Using your own computer, give the name of the operating system that runs it and give examples of five legal file names. Then create examples of five illegal file names, attempt to use them on your system to save a file, and describe what error message you received. Finally, explain how you could fix the file-name to work on your system.

Answer 1

Answer:

Name of Operating System: Ubuntu

Five legal file names:

inventory.txt

total.txt

NIKKAH.txt

Defaulter.txt

studenT.txt

Five illegal file names:

wel/come.txt

..

MY>note.txt

.

my<work.yxt

Explanation:

To fix the illegal name:

1. Remove the special character, so it becomes welcome.txt

2. Remove the double dot and rename using text characters

3. Remove the special character, so it becomes MYnote.txt

4. A file cannot be named using dot. So we rename to a textual name

5. Remove the special character, so it becomes mywork.txt

Some additional rule for naming of files legally in Unix is that, you cannot use a reserved word to name your file. Starting a file name with number is allowed. Starting a file name with dot make the file to be hidden.