> "PE" == Paul Eggert writes:
PE> That argument would apply to any program, no? "cat", "diff", "sh",
PE> "node",
PE> Not sure why "ls" needs a convenience flag that would complicate the
PE> documentation and maintenance and be so rarely useful.
OK, then I'll close the bug then.
On 1/23/21 1:13 PM, 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson wrote:
And any database command already has
a --limit option these days, and does not rely on a second program to
trim its output because it can't control itself. Indeed, on some remote
connections one would only want to launch one program, not two.
That
E.g.,
"What is API pagination? Some APIs, such as Contacts can return millions
of results. We obviously can't return all of them at once, so we need to
return a subset - or a page - at a time. This technique is called paging
and is common to most APIs. Paging can be implemented in many different
Sure, it is against the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix_philosophy, but
just like SQL has LIMIT,
and
$ unicode --help
-m MAXCOUNT, --max=MAXCOUNT
Maximal number of codepoints to display...
Just like "we want to stop pollution at the source", not always "clean up after
Hi Dan,
On 23.01.21 22:13, 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson wrote:
I hereby propose "ls --limit=..."
$ ls --limit=1 # Would only print one result item:
A
You might say:
"Jacobson, just use "ls|sed q". Closed: Worksforme."
Ah, but I am talking about items, not lines:
You can use the ls option '-1' to print
I hereby propose "ls --limit=..."
$ ls --limit=1 # Would only print one result item:
A
You might say:
"Jacobson, just use "ls|sed q". Closed: Worksforme."
Ah, but I am talking about items, not lines:
$ ls
A B C D
E F G H
I J K L
$ ls -C|sed 2q
A B C D
E F G H
$ ls -C --limit=2
A
