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From: janson@athena.mit.edu (James A Anderson)
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Message-ID: <1991Jun7.235150.27486@athena.mit.edu>
Date: 7 Jun 91 23:51:50 GMT
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 Can anyone suggest an X client which allows a user to select a file
interactively and then prints the file's pathname on its standard output
and exits.
 This would be useful, for example, to provide interactive file selection
in shell scripts.
 I've seen a number of motif-based applications which appear to use a standard
directory browser. Is there one which isolates this function? I've also
seen xdir among the contributed clients, but it has an extraneous (for this
purpose) file viewing functions, while lacking a name-pattern filter.

 Can anyone suggest an alternative?

thanks.
james.