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bug#36110: find-dired not sorted on any field nor provides a way


From: Juri Linkov
Subject: bug#36110: find-dired not sorted on any field nor provides a way
Date: Sun, 16 Jun 2019 01:36:45 +0300
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu)

>> diff --git a/doc/emacs/dired.texi b/doc/emacs/dired.texi
>> index 9f454ea2ad..2befcf1bbd 100644
>> --- a/doc/emacs/dired.texi
>> +++ b/doc/emacs/dired.texi
>> @@ -1340,7 +1340,9 @@ Dired and Find
>>    The format of listing produced by these commands is controlled by
>>  the variable @code{find-ls-option}.  This is a pair of options; the
>>  first specifying how to call @command{find} to produce the file listing,
>> -and the second telling Dired to parse the output.
>> +and the second telling Dired to parse the output.  To sort file names
>> +lexicographically, you can customize @code{find-ls-option} to the value
>> +@code{'("-exec ls -ld @{@} +" . "-ld")}
>
> This should qualify the suggestion to using GNU Find, right?

grep-find-use-xargs defines such a command as `exec',
whereas GNU Find is defined as a combination of `find -print0'
and `xargs -0'.  From docstring of grep-find-use-xargs:

 If `exec', use `find -exec {} ;'.
 If `exec-plus' use `find -exec {} +'.
 If `gnu', use `find -print0' and `xargs -0'.





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