[GTALUG] A find alternative: fselect

[D. Hugh Redelmeier]

| From: Christopher Browne via talk <talk at gtalug.org>

| $ fselect path, size from ~/Downloads where size gt 30mb order by size desc limit 25

That looks pretty ugly too.

| FYI, fselect is written in Rust, and has a goodly number of ("painfully
| large number of") dependencies, quasi-self-managed via the Rust-oriented
| dependency tool, Cargo.

Rust culture and practice doesn't seem to like shared libraries..  I do.
(Just like I find the update model for persistent containers unfortunate.)

| The output is intended to be human readable moreso than machine readable.
| (That said, how many of us still use /usr/bin/find to generate input for
| cpio???)

xargs(1)

It too is useful but ugly.