Re: basic find sorting behavior

Jeff wrote:
This is a very basic question about find. I have 4 directories (a, b ,c, d)
without files under. When I issue "find . -type d", the output is "c, a, b,
d". I would like to understand why it is sorted this way considering that
the directories were created the same day with the following time:

mtime ctime atime
./c 8:17:55 8:17:55 8:43:35
./a 8:17:50 8:17:50 8:43:35
./b 8:17:53 8:17:53 8:43:35
./d 8:43:34 8:43:34 8:43:35

Thanks
jeff

find uses the getdents() system call to read the directory.

man getdents

The order given by getdents() depends on the file system.
It can be in the order the files are created,
or it can be a quasi-random order (due to some hash algorithm).

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