Update: Ahhh..did not read your last para prorperly. davidrw's suggestion should do it. If I understand it correctly $_ sets the current short name and not the absolute path so you might want to experiment with that number as the total path limitation could still be an issue...end update

I am not sure what is your file system but Windows has a limitation with the number of chars on the path.

I found this link which talks about how the Win32 API call can be made so that the path will be treated as a unicode. I tried to use it in Perl and did not work.

http://cert.uni-stuttgart.de/archive/bugtraq/2002/01/msg00376.html

I tried to create a deep path on my Windows XP pro. It did not get ver far

#!/usr/bin/perl -w

my $path = "/monktemp"; 
chdir($path)  or die "Cannot chdir to /monktemp: ($!)";

for (1..300) {
    mkdir("monk", 0755) or die "Cannot mkdir monk: $!";  
    chdir("monk")       or die "Cannot chdir to monk: ($!)";
    $path .= "/monk";
    print ("Done Processing $_ levels: Path length so far =", length($
+path),"\n");
}

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Output: 

......
......
Done Processing 45 levels: Path length so far =234
Done Processing 46 levels: Path length so far =239
Done Processing 47 levels: Path length so far =244
Cannot mkdir monk No such file or directory at createdir line 7.

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I haven't looked at the Documentation for the exec method yet but not sure whether any non-system method can be made to go deeper than 255 char limitation!

cheers

SK

In reply to Re: File:Find::Rule on Win32 by sk
in thread File:Find::Rule on Win32 by puploki

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