Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
>
>>> Ok, now pipe ls to less, take three days to browse through all the
>>> filenames to locate the file you want to see.
>>
>> Sounds like you're approaching the issue with a GUI-centric mentality,
>> which is completely hopeless at dealing with this sort of situation.
>
> Piping the output of ls to less is a GUI-centric mentality?
Yeah. The "dump it on the user" idea, or more politely "can't decide
anything until the user has seen everything" is evident in the most
"characteristic" GUIs.
Mel.
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