[Gllug] OT: Very long pathnames

[Alain Williams]

On Mon, May 23, 2005 at 03:52:15PM +0100, Peter Ball wrote:
> Hi
> 
> I've got about 50 Gbytes of Windows shares to transfer to a Samba server.
> 
> Particularly where users have saved web pages  we end up with crazy long 
> path names (especially when the complete web page is saved creating a 
> sub-folder sometimes to multiple levels).
> 
> Windows will actually save and use pathnames which exceed its own 
> specifications (I've got one here where the total path is 264 characters - the 
> file name alone is 197 characters).  It works fine until you try to copy the 
> share and god knows what it does when you backup, restore, zip, unzip etc.
> 
> Does anyone know of any tools Windows or Linux tools which will audit a 
> Windows/Samba share and list all pathnames longer than say 200 
> characters ?

ls -R | awk '/:$/ { dir = substr($1, 1, length($1) - 1) "/"; next}
             /^$/ { next }
                  { if(length > 200) print dir $0 }'

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Alain Williams
Parliament Hill Computers Ltd.
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