Overview

This is a collection of weird filename edge cases. Its intended use is as a testcase for other programs that deal with the filesystem.

List of wtfiles

• File whose name is just a space (Github doesn't render it)
• Directory whose name is just two spaces (Github doesn't render it)
• Symlink to file whose name is just three spaces (Github doesn't render it)
  • ->
• Symlink to directory whose name is just four spaces (Github doesn't render it)
  • ->
• Symlink to directory
  • dir-symlink -> somedir
• Symlink to non-existent file
  • broken symlink -> __BROKEN__
• Files containing spaces
  • file with spaces.txt
  • file with spaces and no extension
• File with symbols
  • file with symbols {}!\@\#$%^&*()_+~`'";:<>.,?[]|\\
• File whose name contains new lines \n
  • file with\nnew lines\n
• File whose name contains tabs \t
  • file with\ttabs\t
• File whose name is "
  • .
• File whose name is "
  • ...
• File starting with spaces
  • file starting with spaces
• Files with long filenames
  • 32, 64, 128, and 256 character files
• Directories with long names
  • 32, 64, 128, and 256 character directories
• Unicode files
  • ελληνικά
• Unicode with spaces
  • ελληνικά με κενά
• Pile of poo file
  • 💩
• Hidden files
  • .hidden.
• File with all ASCII codes from 1 to 127
  • ASCII-LOVE-1-127...
• File with all ASCII codes from 128 to 255
  • ASCII-LOVE-128-255...
• Non UTF-8 ISO umlaut file
  • test-umläut-file.txt
• File whose name is "-f", but how will you remove this file using terminal

Contributing

Do you know an edge case that's not included in this collection? Please send a pull request.