walking a directory with very many files

[Mel]

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.