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You still have to worry about colons on Linux; while they're valid in file and folder names, they prevent folders from being put on PATH and understood properly.

(Other characters of course cause usability problems and are potentially even a security vulnerability depending on the terminal. But they're still "valid".)

Stock macOS uses a bash or zsh shell in the terminal (depending on the OS version), so the same points of caution hold there as well.

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