find -exec question

[C de-Avillez]

On Sun, 11 May 2014 19:05:45 +0100
R Kimber <richardkimber at btinternet.com> wrote:

> When I use 'find' with the '-exec' option, I see that it does not
> pass the filenames to the program being executed in alphabetical
> order of directory name.
> 
> What is the criterion 'find' uses to order its results? Is there a
> way of getting it to traverse the directory structure alphabetically,
> so that I can process each directory in alphabetical order?
> 
> - Richard.

You may be hitting the fact that sort output will depend on locale
setup. On the other hand, you did not specify what options you used on
'find' so I am not sure what is going on.

..C..

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