What characters are forbidden in Windows and Linux directory names?

Question

I know that / is illegal in Linux, and the following are illegal in Windows (I think) * . \" / \\ [

Answer 1

For Windows you can check it using PowerShell

$PathInvalidChars = [System.IO.Path]::GetInvalidPathChars() #36 chars

To display UTF-8 codes you can convert

$enc = [system.Text.Encoding]::UTF8
$PathInvalidChars | foreach { $enc.GetBytes($_) }

$FileNameInvalidChars = [System.IO.Path]::GetInvalidFileNameChars() #41 chars

$FileOnlyInvalidChars = @(':', '*', '?', '\', '/') #5 chars - as a difference