[mdlug] How to find file name length?
Adam Tauno Williams
adamtaunowilliams at gmail.com
Wed Sep 26 09:59:13 EDT 2007
> > I was trying to burn a DVD using K3b. I have about 4.3GB of data in thousands
> > of files. This disc needs to be shared between Linux and Windows. Because of
> > this I am using 103 character Joliet extensions. I don't get vary far because
> > K3b throws an error on files with names longer than 103 characters. The
> > problem is it does not tell me what file has a name 103 characters.
> > So the question is: Is there a way to find all files with a name length of
> > greater than 103 character?
> Yes.
find tmp -name "???????????????*" will find all the files with a file
name length of 15 or more in the directory named "tmp". Crude, but it
works.
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Adam Tauno Williams, Network & Systems Administrator
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Developer - http://www.opengroupware.org
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