Finding duplicate file names and modifying them based on elements of the path

Prasad, Ramit ramit.prasad at jpmorgan.com
Thu Jul 19 15:02:37 EDT 2012


> > I am making the assumption that you intend to collapse the directory
> > tree and store each file in the same directory, otherwise I can't think
> > of why you need to do this.
> 
> Hi Simon, thanks for the reply. It's not quite this - what I am doing
> is creating a zip file with relative path names, and if there are
> duplicate files the parts of the path that are not be carried over
> need to get prepended to the file names to make then unique,

Depending on the file system of the client, you can hit file name
length limits. I would think it would be better to just create
the full structure in the zip.

Just something to keep in mind, especially if you see funky behavior.

Ramit

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