find -exec question

[Normand Marion]

find will be traversing the directory tree in the order items are stored
within the directory entries.

so do

find dir -type f | sort [sort_param] | xargs -i command {}

or

find dir -type f | sort [sort_param] | awk '{print "command", $1}' | bash
[your_shell]




2014-05-11 19:03 GMT-04:00 MR ZenWiz <mrzenwiz at gmail.com>:

> 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
>
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