Re: Looking for a freeware command line tool

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It seems your post has changed directions. Initially you asked
for some command line tool that could execute certain commands
in every subdirectory of a directory tree. Now you complain
about being unable to reach the far branches of a excessively
long directory tree. This is why I asked for further details.

This phenomenon has nothing to do with cacls.exe or any
other command. It is a limitation of the operating system: The
sum of path+file name cannot exceed 255 characters. So how
are they created? Simple: By substitution or by mapping. When
you run either of these commands

subst x: d:\SomeFolder\Folder1\Folder2\Folder3\Folder4\Folder5

net share YYY=d:\SomeFolder\Folder1\Folder2\Folder3\Folder4\Folder5
net use y: \\YourServer\YYY

then drives x: and drive y: are subject to the same 255 character
limitation, which will extend the depth of the tree d:\SomeFolder.
This is also the method you must use to access such deep folders
after such long branches have been created.

A much better way is to place information inside files rather than
into file or folder names.

"Mike Matheny" <mikemathenyathoustondotrrdotcom> wrote in message
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I can't possibly see what is vague about this post - MS allows paths to be
created that cannot be accessed via MS tools! That is a fact! CACLS fails
trying to apply permissions to these overly long paths. Either MS needs
to
NOT let these paths to be created, or write a damn tool that can handle
them!

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Mike Matheny

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"Pegasus (MVP)" <I.can@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Your reply is too vague to offer any feasible suggestions.


"Mike Matheny" <mikemathenyathoustondotrrdotcom> wrote in message
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Well, we have paths on our servers that are apparently valid lengths
(they
allowed them to be created) but when running cacls or xcacls, the choke
on
the length. I have tried the xcacls.vbs script, which navigates to each
subfolder and performs the actions, but it runs all weekend long -
hoping
to
find something a little faster.

The find idea was suggested by a Unix admin here.

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Mike Matheny

Views expressed herein do not reflect or represent
my employer in any way.

"Pegasus (MVP)" <I.can@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
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"Mike Matheny" <mikemathenyathoustondotrrdotcom> wrote in message
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Looking for a freeware command line tool that will let me run a
program
on
every file I select throughout a complete folder structure - found a
program
named Global doing a search on the internet, but can't find the
program!

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Mike Matheny

Views expressed herein do not reflect or represent
my employer in any way.

Can you give an example of what you're trying to do?










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