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find-dired not sorted on any field nor provides a way

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Message #53 received at 36110 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Juri Linkov <juri <at> linkov.net>
Cc: 36110 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, jidanni <at> jidanni.org
Subject: Re: bug#36110: find-dired not sorted on any field nor provides a way
Date: Sun, 16 Jun 2019 05:39:05 +0300

> From: Juri Linkov <juri <at> linkov.net>
> Cc: jidanni <at> jidanni.org,  36110 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Sun, 16 Jun 2019 01:36:45 +0300
> 
> >> 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'.

I meant the "+" part, I think it's GNU-specific?

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