maximum length of filenames?

[ans3lm]

What is the maximum length of filenames in OS X?

Is it more than 32 characters?

 

[reuteler]

why not check?

from the terminal, as is typical for unix, i get up to 255. the finder also let me enter 255. seems true for ufs or hfs+.

on an aside. this is super funky to me.

HFS+
moxie% rm -f lowercase LOWERCASE
moxie% echo test > lowercase
moxie% touch LOWERCASE
moxie% cat LOWERCASE
test
moxie%

UFS
moxie% rm -f lowercase LOWERCASE
moxie% echo test > lowercase
moxie% touch LOWERCASE
moxie% cat LOWERCASE
moxie%

sure am i glad i formatted UFS. as a UNIX guy that would have driven me insane.

 

[reuteler]

why not check?

from the terminal, as is typical for unix, i get up to 255. the finder also let me enter 255. seems true for ufs or hfs+.

on an aside. this is super funky to me.

HFS+
moxie% rm -f lowercase LOWERCASE
moxie% echo test > lowercase
moxie% touch LOWERCASE
moxie% cat LOWERCASE
test
moxie%

UFS
moxie% rm -f lowercase LOWERCASE
moxie% echo test > lowercase
moxie% touch LOWERCASE
moxie% cat LOWERCASE
moxie%

sure am i glad i formatted UFS. as a UNIX guy that would have driven me insane.

 

[kjkerr]

Originally posted by reuteler
why not check?

my guess is that the person you replied to doesn't yet have OSXPB...like me (but mine's in the mail!)