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I decided to rip some of my Audio CDs to FLAC and although I try to avoid special characters in the name of the folders I named some of my folders with curly braces:

1973 - Aerosmith {1993 Remaster}

I do not use the terminal for accessing these folders or the files inside them. I tend to use curly braces for something that's not part of the album title. The reason I don't use () or [] is because there are releases with parentheses and brackets in the album title so I needed something more unique. The {} seems to be ideal.

Vlastimil Burián
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Zoltan King
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The ext4 filesystem should have no problem with any ASCII character in a file name or other path element (folder, directory) except for / and \0 (the null byte). If an album has a / in the title, you may have to handle that specially.

On the other hand, many shells (and thus shell scripts) may need special characters to be single ‘quoted’ or \backslash escaped.

D McKeon
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Probably not. If you were to access the files via bash you would have to quote them with \. Unix/Linux filename standards allow any character in filenames, except NUL (0x00) and slash "/".

waltinator
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