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I have a problem with atom, when trying to open a file. File name pattern is:
name_dd.MM.YYYY_hh:ss
Where: dd.MM.YYYY denotes the date and hh:ss the time of file creation. Now, whenI try to open it, either from terminal or directly from atom, instead of showing the content of the file, atom creates a new temporary empty file named:
name_dd.MM.YYYY_hh
Seems like atom is having trouble recognizing the full file name and truncates it right after ":". There is no problem when opening this file with gedit or nano. Anyone knows what might be causing the problem? I know I can just change the naming pattern, but now I am genuinely curious what is causing this weird behaviour.
Thanks in advance.
MintBerryCrunch
Posted 2019-07-25T21:08:00.800
Reputation: 1
Which operating system do you use? How do you open the file (e.g. from the command line)? For interoperability, I recommend not using colons since they are reserved characters on some operating systems / file systems (details on Wikipedia).
– idleberg – 2019-07-26T14:22:57.590I use Ubuntu 18.04.2 LTS. I tried to open it both from command line and from atom itself with no luck. I had no problem when opening using nano or gedit (from command line). On the page you provided it does not state ":" is used by linux like operating systems. – MintBerryCrunch – 2019-07-26T19:22:57.770
Opening file with a colon works just fine on macOS. That is, unless the file-system does some tricks handling those file-names. When I view the file in Finder (the macOS window manager), the file is displayed with forward-slash in place of a colon. In Terminal, it's displayed with a colon.
Anyway, it might be a Linux-specific bug and should be reported on the Atom repository.