#!/usr/bin/perl -w use File::Find; find(\&crusher, $ARGV[0]); sub crusher{ $nlength = length($_); if ($nlength > 64){ ($fname, $extension) = split(/\./,$_, 2); $fname =~ s/\W//g; $fname =~ s/(the|this|that|at|on|in|of|to|by|with)//ig; if (length($fname) + length($extension) > 63){ $fkeep= (63 - length($extension)); $fname = substr($fname, 0, $fkeep); } $newname = join ".", ($fname,$extension); rename($_, $newname) or warn "couldn't rename : $! \n"; } }