Vista - copying file with a long fullname

Hi guys. I'd like to copy all the files of a unit that have a fullpath length greater than 255 chars.

I wrote this

gci -rec | ? {($_.fullname).length -gt 255}| % {copy-item $_ c:\longfiles}

but just one file has been copied. For all the others powershell returns me an error that says that it's impossible to find the path because it doesn't exist.

Where is my mistake?

Stupid me.

copy-item $_.fullname

now it works.

"sardinian_guy" <guest@xxxxxx-email.com> wrote in message
news:27e8c687d8ebfd12940af73e9b91bad8@xxxxxx-gateway.com...Since copy-item accepts pipeline input, you can also simplify to:

gci -rec | ? {!$_.PSIsContainer -and (($_.fullname).length -gt 255)} |
copy-item -dest c:\longfiles

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Keith

Thank you very much Keith.
I've another question.
I'd like to copy the fullpath of these files on a txt file. So I wrote this

gci -rec | ? {!$_.PSIsContainer -and (($_.fullname).length -gt 255)} | ft fullname > c:\longfiles.txt

but the fullpaths are not showed entirely and for each line just appears the beginning of the name with three final points.

I've seen that with the switch -wrap I can show all the paths but I would like to have each path on just one row of my txt file. Is it possibile?

Thanks again.

With a google search I found this post that have solved my problem.

How do I get format-table to drop that omission points (...) and display my data

gci -rec | ? {!$_.PSIsContainer -and (($_.fullname).length -gt 255)} | ft fullname | out-file -width 350 c:\longfiles.txt

This forum rulez.
Thanks again keith.