[GTALUG] A find alternative: fselect

o1bigtenor o1bigtenor at gmail.com
Wed Jun 12 19:09:51 EDT 2019


On Wed, Jun 12, 2019 at 4:40 PM D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk
<talk at gtalug.org> wrote:
>
> | 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.)
>
Sorry - - - Mr Hugh - - - would you please explain the above last statement?

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