[GTALUG] A find alternative: fselect

[Dave Collier-Brown]

There are a couple of really odd CLIs in Unix. find(1) is one, and dd(7)
is another.  dd is pure multics, and find is just weird, with the
options and parameters reversed from common practice.

Hysterical accident!

--dave

On 2019-06-12 5:39 p.m., D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk 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.)
>
> | 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.
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