Shell Programming and Scripting

I have a script that executes the following code and I could use some help.

Code:

find $searchdir -maxdepth 2 -type d -name $dir -exec mkalias {} ./$dir/_$dir$suffix \;

(mkalias is an executable to create mac aliases)
(The script takes a directory name finds that same name on another drive and creates a mac alias to it inside the named directory and adds a _ to the beginning and .Link to the end.)

The problem I'm having is that the filenames created by mkalias are whacky.
Like this:

Code:

_XXX_004_010_Laptop#C93202.Link

It should read:

Code:

XXX_004_010_Laptop_Over_O_First_Look.Link

So rather than try to figure that out I think I'd rather truncate the file name at the first 11 characters so it creates:

Code:

_XXX_004_010.Link

Is there something I can add so that only the first 11 characters are used?