I'm trying to list all the files with names no longer than 250 characters (including the directory it is part of, from the relative path my command is inside).
I've seen a similar thread , but that will only list the files recursively.
Any idea on how to modify script to only show files with names no longer than 250 characters (including the relative path)?
With GNU find:
find . -regextype posix-extended ! -regex '.{253,}' ! -type d
(that prints a ./ prefix which is not included in the 250 count).
With zsh:
setopt extendedglob # if not already in your ~/.zshrc
printf '%s\n' **/*~?(#c251,)(D^/)
That's all paths recursively (**/*) including hidden ones ((D)), but not (^) those of type directory (/), except (~) those that match ?(#c251,), that is that contain 251 characters or more.
POSIXly:
find . ! -path "$(printf %253s | tr ' ' '?')*" ! -type d
(note that there's nothing on Unix that guarantees that file names are made of valid characters. Except for the zsh one, those solutions may also report files whose path contain sequences of bytes that don't form valid characters (adding -path '*' may help excluding those). If you want to match on the number of bytes as opposed to number of characters in your locale, you can fix the locale to C with export LC_ALL=C).
find. Yours is probably busybox find. 220 is not longer than 250, so by your requirements, those files should be listed. Update your question if that's not what you want.
POSIXly:
$ find . -type f -exec sh -c '
for f do
[ "${#f}" -le 252 ] &&
printf "%s\n" "$f"
done
' sh {} +
POSIX defined ${#parameter} as the length in characters of value parameter, but the behaviour may varies in some shells. bash, zsh, yash count characters, dash count bytes. ksh93 has a random bug depends on its implementation.
sh implementations (${#f} counts bytes in ksh and dash and characters in bash, zsh and yash; yash chokes on invalid characters).
${#parameter} is the length in characters of the value of parameter?
ksh93 -c 'echo "${#1}"' sh $'\ue9\xe9' gives me 19, but that's a random bug in ksh93. With mksh, it gives me 3 but 2 with mksh -o utf8-mode.
sh (AT&T Research) 93u+ 2012-08-01 both in Debian and OSX. The one in OSX return 2, but Debian return 53 for your example.