How to create a file named . on Linux easily. This is a very devious trick.
It is apparently possible to create a file named ., this will make the file unusable, but it is still very cool. I used this simple command. strace touch ‘.’strace touch ‘.’ Type a dot character “.”, then press Control-Shift-u and type 200b and then press ENTER, this will create a zero-width invisible character. Then … Read more