Shell scripts: determining filename length

[Brian D. McGrew]

Good morning.

I'm working on some shell scripts that process directories full of times
shared by Samba and used by Windows people.  We all know that Windows
people have a habit of really, really, really, long filenames.

In a shell script, inside a `for f in *` loop, how can I go about
finding how long a filename is ... And then truncate the name, keeping
the three letter extension, to less than 64 characters?

Thanks!

-brian
 
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