truncate directory names to certain length

[Charles Curley]

On Wed, May 16, 2007 at 11:30:35AM -0600, Levi Pearson wrote:
> Paul Seamons <paul at seamons.com> writes:

> As a sidenote, I think that the above make much better answers to 
> 'how do I?' questions than the one-liner versions.

Hear, hear! There are two reasons for asking a question like this
one. One, of course, is to get the job done. An obtuse occult
one-liner may satisfy this requirement. The other, more important,
reason is to learn how to do that sort of thing. A well documented
easy to understand answer is essential to this purpose.

It is said that if you give a hungry man a fish, he will eat once. If
you teach him how to fish, he will eat many times. So also with
solutions to problems.

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