[Gllug] OT: Very long pathnames

[Fred L Youhanaie]

Alain Williams wrote:
> On Mon, May 23, 2005 at 03:52:15PM +0100, Peter Ball wrote:
>>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 }'

Of course if Peter is only interested in the whole _pathname_, then this 
should suffice:

cd sambashare
find . | awk 'length>200'

Cheers
f.

p.s. sorry alain, I had to reply ;-)
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