[mdlug] How to find file name length?

[Aaron Kulkis]

Adam Tauno Williams wrote:
>>> 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.
>
>   
Actually, it is a perfectly elegant solution.