Bug 147928 – Alphabetic sort capability for find

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Bug 147928 - Alphabetic sort capability for find

Summary:	Alphabetic sort capability for find

Status:	CLOSED UPSTREAM

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Product:	Fedora
Classification:	Fedora
Component:	findutils (Show other bugs)
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Version:	3
Hardware:	All Linux

Priority	medium Severity medium
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Assigned To:	Tim Waugh
QA Contact:	Mike McLean
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Keywords:	FutureFeature

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Reported:	2005-02-13 05:54 EST by Christopher Beland
Modified:	2007-11-30 17:11 EST (History)
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Last Closed:	2005-02-23 04:48:42 EST
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Description Christopher Beland 2005-02-13 05:54:37 EST

Sometimes it would be handy if "find" could process output for each
directory in alphabetical order, like ls does by default.  Merely
piping to "sort" mixes the output from multiple directories.

Comment 1 Tim Waugh 2005-02-14 04:50:51 EST

Could you give an example of why that might be useful?

Comment 2 Christopher Beland 2005-02-17 11:24:54 EST

If I remember correctly, I was passing the output of find to some script that
needed relative pathnames.  I think I was using it to produce a report sorted by
directory, and I wanted the contents of each directory to be alphabetized,
because otherwise it was too annoying to find any particular file in the listings.

Comment 3 Tim Waugh 2005-02-23 04:48:42 EST

Please submit this request on the https://savannah.gnu.org/projects/findutils
site.  Thanks.

Comment 4 Christopher Beland 2007-08-26 17:08:22 EDT

Done: https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/index.php?20909

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