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Find filenames contain illegal windows characters on Mac/Linux -- regex pattern match windows reserved characters
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find_illegal_windows_filename.sh
# Source: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/19008614/find-files-with-illegal-windows-characters-in-the-name-on-linux
# reserved characters for filename on windows: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa365247(v=vs.85).aspx
find . -name '*[<>:/\\|?*]*'
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