-=PCTechTalk=- Re: Dos Command line question
- From: Disastar <disastar@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 26 Oct 2008 23:42:02 -0400
As I started writing this program it occurred to me that I might be
misunderstanding what you are looking for. In your example "xcopy
D:\PALM\*.* Q:\PALM\*.* /v /s /e /y /c" you will not have any problems
since the destination path is the same length as your source path. I was
thinking that you have some paths that somehow go beyond the Windows limit
(255 I think), but I am having trouble trying to create such a path for
testing purposes. So, I'm guessing now that you are using a longer
destination path than your source path.
I'm wondering if the TeraCopy program might be more what you are looking
for. I believe its faster than the DOS xcopy command also.
http://www.codesector.com/teracopy.php
Ed
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[mailto:pctechtalk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Disastar
Sent: Sunday, October 26, 2008 10:20 PM
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Subject: -=PCTechTalk=- Re: Dos Command line question
I should be able to write a quick program that will search for paths greater
than 250. Do you want a GUI interface or command line?
Ed
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[mailto:pctechtalk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Larry Southerland
Sent: Sunday, October 26, 2008 5:45 PM
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Subject: -=PCTechTalk=- Re: Dos Command line question
Actually, if it were Koine, I'd be your man -- taught myself Koine in High
School so that I could read the New Testament in the original. ;-)
Actually, what has happened is as follows:
I have a top-level directory which contains a lot of Palm books and PDF
files. I sorted them to make finding them easier (e.g., \Palm\Sci\Bio\).
However, some of the titles, when unzipped or unrarred, recreated the (often
long) titles of each book, followed by the name of the book again. For
example:
D:\PALM\SCI\BIO\The origin of species by charles Darwin original edition
with diagrams and pictures\The origin of species by charles Darwin original
edition with diagrams and pictures.pdb
(You get the idea, except some of the titles are even longer)
I am actually interested in both of the issues you raise: I need to know
which paths are too long to survive the transfer (so that I can rename them
while keeping the ones that don't need changing intact -- there are hundreds
of thousands of files). Automation might also be a wonderful, wonderful
thing. I had hoped that there might be some way to trigger the xcopy
command to signal that a failure to copy had occurred along with the errant
filespec:
IF XCOPY FILESPEC = OK
NO MESSAGE
IF XCOPY FILESPEC = FAIL
PRINT FILESPEC >> FAIL_LIST.TXT
I could then rename all the files in fail_list.txt to shorter file names....
BTW: On an historical note: The phrase "It's all Greek to me," originally
stated in Shakespeare's "Julius Caesar," meaning that the person couldn't
understand it, is inaccurate. Koine Greek was spoken by almost every person
in the Roman Empire, including both educated and uneducated alike. It was
the "lingua Franca" of its day.
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From: pctechtalk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:pctechtalk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Gman
Sent: Sunday, October 26, 2008 5:23 PM
To: pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: -=PCTechTalk=- Re: Dos Command line question
Hi Larry,
I'm guessing you alreayd know that anyone not familiar with DOS commands
will view your query as Greek. Of course, any members who understand Greek
will see it as something else. :O)
Are you primarily trying to determine which path statements will be too
long to survive the move or are you specifically looking for a command to
automate the process?
Peace,
Gman
"The only dumb questions are the ones we fail to ask"
----- Original Message -----
From: "Larry Southerland" <larrysoutherland@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, October 26, 2008 3:31 PM
Subject: -=PCTechTalk=- Dos Command line question
> Assume that one is issuing the following command line:
>
> xcopy D:\PALM\*.* Q:\PALM\*.* /v /s /e /y /c
>
> Assume also that some of the directory structures in D:\PALM\ have more
> than, say, 240 or 250 characters in them
>
> Is there a piping or redirection command which would produce a list of
> those
> directories which were in excess of the maximum filespec limitation so
> that
> they (and just they) could be renamed?
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