I'm on OS X, trying to connect Microsoft OneDrive, which has a hard path limit. I need to find the longest paths in a directory.
How to find and sort a directory by the longest file path
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I'm on OS X, trying to connect Microsoft OneDrive, which has a hard path limit. I need to find the longest paths in a directory.
Best Answer
The following command will give you the character count of every regular file (remove the
-type f
for all types of files including directories) underneath the directory you execute it in, and sort them so the longest ones are output last:It assumes file and directory names don't contain newline characters.