Get short name file

Equals "-s" Console. Auto ] [return: MarshalAs UnmanagedType. Null or empty if the input is null or empty. Capacity ; return builder. Format CultureInfo. This code was taken from pinvoke. Tim Cooper k 36 36 gold badges silver badges bronze badges. Sign up or log in Sign up using Google. Sign up using Facebook. Sign up using Email and Password. Post as a guest Name. Email Required, but never shown.

The Overflow Blog. Stack Gives Back Safety in numbers: crowdsourcing data on nefarious IP addresses. Featured on Meta. New post summary designs on greatest hits now, everywhere else eventually. Related EXE tool. Open a command prompt in the directory containing the subdirectory with spaces in its name, and enter Junction shortname "Long Name With Spaces".

Show 4 more comments. Scott SSpoke SSpoke 5 5 silver badges 6 6 bronze badges. Really useful, should be marked as answer! Is it do-able using a SET command? Li3ro I couldn't figure out SET variable command way but I got pretty close, you can see it at the bottom of the answer just needs a little fix up. I'm not into batch script programming so I don't know how. It is not doable this way.

I created a ShortName. Show 1 more comment. Sources : CMD docummentation Batch parameters. Ivan Schwarz Ivan Schwarz 3 3 silver badges 6 6 bronze badges. Just open powershell in current dir in cmd windows type powershell if you have folder open in gui you can type cmd.

GetFolder ". GetFolder Get-Location. Not true. Sometimes fewer characters are used, particularly if you are using asian characters, such as Korean. Paul 's answer solves that issue. I have so many files that start with the same characters that after four of them Are you suggesting that the user can figure out the short names logically by looking at the long names? See the rule that Windows uses for generating short names. And you can also set the short name manually with fsutil , so the two names may have no relation whatsoever.

That should disable short names creation. Refer to this Microsoft TechNet article to read more about the solution. On my system I get something like this: There have been a lot of security problems in the past related to short file names. After installing one of the plugins, I have requested a backup of my WordPress blog: The plugin creates a custom directory for this backup backup The solution There is a way to disable Windows 8. Get the latest content on web security in your inbox each week.

Bogdan Calin. Skip to main content. This browser is no longer supported. Download Microsoft Edge More info. Contents Exit focus mode. GetShortPathNameW function fileapi. Please rate your experience Yes No. Any additional feedback? Note Although the return value in this case is a length that includes the terminating null character, the return value on success does not include the terminating null character in the count.