Chris Davies wrote: > Tzafrir Cohen <[email protected]> wrote: >> At this point I wanted to write "well, one thing you you can optimize >> away is the sorting of the 4M files that find does. To disable it, use >> -". But I could not find such an option. > > That's because find doesn't sort. It generates the files in directory > entry order. Proof: > > mkdir /tmp/t > cd /tmp/t > touch a > touch d > touch c > touch b > find . -print > > I'll leave it to you to discover why the files aren't (necessarily) > printed in the order they were created. > > Chris
Just curious - why would you use sort before deleting something? regards -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
