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in thread find2perl and 256 chars folder length

But this is exactly what my problem is. I need a way to tell the perl interpreter to use only short names. Or i have to rewrite the find module to convert each file/folder into short named version before searching the next subfolder. Anyone any idea?
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Re^3: find2perl and 256 chars folder length
by BrowserUk (Patriarch) on Mar 20, 2010 at 13:12 UTC

    One option would be to use windows tools instead to get your list of files. Eg. 

    c:\test>dir /s /b Zz*
c:\test\ZZXYZ
c:\test\abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzabcdefghij
+klmnopqrstuvwxyzabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyza
+bcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzabcdefghijklmnopqr
+stuvwxyzabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz\ZZZXYX

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    You can either pipe the list into your script, or invoke the command via a piped open and get it that way.

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Re^3: find2perl and 256 chars folder length
by afoken (Chancellor) on Mar 20, 2010 at 17:45 UTC

    Download the source from my page, find the functions I used, and use Win32::API or one of the existing Win32 functions to port my algorithm to perl. Win32::GetShortPathName() and Win32::GetLongPathName() are documented in the latter module, but they are availabe as CORE functions (without use Win32;), so you don't even have to mess with Win32::API.

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