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Comment by Eiwatah4 | Hacker News Reader

    $ find / -mindepth 10 | wc -L 
    273

I seem to have some slightly longer file paths on my home computer. Do I need that? Probably not. I could move those files somewhere else. But should I really have to worry about such things?

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reached 248 here when run against my home dir. Interestingly the winner is the path to a transitive npm dependency five(!) levels down the dependency tree. The command I used:

    find -mindepth 10 | awk '{ print length(), $0 | "sort -n" }'  | tail

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