{"id":1332,"date":"2013-05-04T22:41:33","date_gmt":"2013-05-04T22:41:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.softwareeverydayblog.com\/?p=1332"},"modified":"2013-05-04T22:41:41","modified_gmt":"2013-05-04T22:41:41","slug":"get-the-8-3-or-short-file-name-of-a-folder-in-windows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.softwareeverydayblog.com\/?p=1332","title":{"rendered":"Get the 8.3 (or short file name) of a folder in windows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It seems like on an NTFS partition there is something called <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/8.3_filename\" title=\"8.3 filename\" target=\"_blank\">8.3 Name Creation<\/a>. Its basically a short file name with a tilde ~. Problem i was facing was how to get the short file name for a folder? One way is just to keep trying different combinations, the other is is using the <a href=\"http:\/\/http:\/\/superuser.com\/questions\/179449\/windows-path-without-spaces-with-1\" title=\"Windows path without spaces (with ~1)?\" target=\"_blank\">command dir \/x \/a<\/a>. \/a includes even hidden files.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It seems like on an NTFS partition there is something called 8.3 Name Creation. Its basically a short file name with a tilde ~. Problem i was facing was how to get the short file name for a folder? One way is just to keep trying different combinations, the other is is using the command [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.softwareeverydayblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1332","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.softwareeverydayblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.softwareeverydayblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.softwareeverydayblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.softwareeverydayblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1332"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.softwareeverydayblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1332\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1334,"href":"https:\/\/www.softwareeverydayblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1332\/revisions\/1334"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.softwareeverydayblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.softwareeverydayblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.softwareeverydayblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}