If your linux machine shows a ~(tilde) in most filenames on
your dos or windows partition,what is the mistake you have
made?How do you get back the long filenames?

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If your linux machine shows a ~(tilde) in most filenames on your dos or windows partition,what is ..

Answer / cms

U can use dos2unix command to convert ur files from DOS/windows environment to Unix environment. Also, unix2dos command also exist for the opposite case.

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If your linux machine shows a ~(tilde) in most filenames on your dos or windows partition,what is ..

Answer / l.nakkeeran.

Because the directory name contains spaces.Remove the spaces
in the name and we get the filenames without tilde symbol

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