Re: tail for a list of files

[Samuel Sieb <samuel@xxxxxxxx>]

On 03/04/2018 11:15 AM, R. G. Newbury wrote:
> I created 4 pdf files using 'touch 123.pdf' through '126.pdf'
>
> find .  -name "*.pdf" | tail -n 2
>
> does not 'find' the files in canonical order: it outputs 124.pdf and 
> 126.pdf

The find command lists the files in whatever order the filesystem 
returns them, it does not do any sorting.
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