About_PSAlphaFS.txt
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Maximum Path Length Limitation
In the Windows API, the maximum length for a path is MAX_PATH, which is defined as 260 characters. A local path is structured in the following order: drive letter, colon, backslash, name components separated by backslashes, and a terminating null character. For example, the maximum path on drive D is "D:\some 256-character path string<NUL>" where "<NUL>" represents the invisible terminating null character for the current system codepage. (The characters < > are used here for visual clarity and cannot be part of a valid path string.) The AlphaFS library overcomes the MAX_PATH limitation of 260 characters and is provided as Open Source, licensed under the MIT license. AlphaFS provides a namespace (Alphaleonis.Win32.Filesystem) containing a number of classes. Most notable are replications of the System.IO.File, System.IO.Directory and System.IO.Path, all with support for the extended-length paths (up to 32.000 chars) PSAlphaFS is a wrapper for the ALphaFS .NET library providing useful powerShell functions that replicate the functionality of the following cmdlets shipped by microsoft. Get-ChildItem Get-Item Copy-Item Rename-Item Remove-Item New-Item Move-Item The cmdlets in this module have been prefixed with the word "long" to distinguish them from the ones provided by microsoft. Get-LongChildItem (alias ldir) Get-LongItem Copy-LongItem Rename-LongItem Move-LongItem Remove-LongItem New-LongItem Links: MAX_PATH https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa365247(v=vs.85).aspx#maxpath AlphaFS https://github.com/alphaleonis/AlphaFS |