On 20Oct2020 10:58, Samuel Sieb <samuel@xxxxxxxx> wrote: >On 10/20/20 10:52 AM, Todd Zullinger wrote: >>While tac is handy (and amusingly named), I don't think it's >>what you want. The reason is that the find output order >>isn't deterministic. It's in the directory entry order, >>which depends on when the directories were created. [...] >I can't imagine how it could work like that. It has to go recursively >so it will *always* find the parent directory first. How could a >subdirectory possibly be created before its parent directory? WRT to the recursion side, yes, you're right. But at a particular level the names won't necessarily come out in lexical order (the come out in directory entry order), so a sort is often useful anyway. Cheers, Cameron Simpson <cs@xxxxxxxxxx> _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
