[bug #58541] [wishlist] Add optional sort to find

[Lady Aleena]

URL:
  <https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?58541>

                 Summary: [wishlist] Add optional sort to find
                 Project: findutils
            Submitted by: lady_aleena
            Submitted on: Thu 11 Jun 2020 05:49:51 AM UTC
                Category: find
                Severity: 3 - Normal
              Item Group: None
                  Status: None
                 Privacy: Public
             Assigned to: None
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             Open/Closed: Open
                 Release: 4.6.0
         Discussion Lock: Any
           Fixed Release: None

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Details:

Yesterday I used find so that I could open the resultant file list in my text
editor, but I wanted the files to be opened in sorted order. That meant that I
could not use the -exec option since I was piping to sort. It would be nice if
I could use something like -sort <maybe some sort options> in find, so that I
do not have to pipe find results to sort.

Example of possible usage:

find . -type f -sort
find . -type f -sort fnr

The first is just a plain sort, the second is a case ignored numeric reversed
sort. (I used options from sort.)

full find version: find 4.6.0.225-235f
OS: Debian 10





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