I'd not come across this before, but it appears to be true: $ touch $(printf 'a%.0s' {1..255}) $ touch $(printf 'a%.0s' {1..256}) touch: cannot tou

I'd not come across this before, but it appears to be true: $ touch $(printf 'a%.0s' {1..255}) $ touch $(printf 'a%.0s' {1..256}) touch: cannot touch 'aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa': File name too long (on ext4 and ZFS anyway)