walking a directory with very many files

[Lawrence D'Oliveiro]

In message <kCk0m.406$ze1.243 at news-server.bigpond.net.au>, Lie Ryan wrote:

> Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
>
>> ... certainly it is characteristic of GUIs to show you all 400,000 files
>> in a directory, or at least try to do so, and either hang for half an
>> hour or run out of memory and crash, rather than give you some
>> intelligent way of prefiltering the file display up front.
> 
> In many debugging cases, you don't even know what to filter ...

So pick a random sample to start with. Do you know of a GUI tool that can do 
that?