find -exec question

[MR ZenWiz]

On Sun, May 11, 2014 at 3:05 PM, R Kimber <richardkimber at btinternet.com> wrote:
> On Sun, 11 May 2014 14:50:53 -0700
> MR ZenWiz wrote:
>
>> Without other guidance, 'find' reports its results in mtime order.
>
> Ah. Thanks.  So is it possible to give it guidance such that the results
> are alphabetic?
>
Not that I know of from inside the 'find.'  You can sort the output,
but that also requires a more complex command to operate on the
results, e.g.:

ls -l `find . -type f -print | sort`

or:

for i in `find . -type f -print | sort`; do <whatever you like> $i; done