On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 2:49 PM, Emanoil Kotsev <deloptes@yahoo.com> wrote: > Just curious - why would you use sort before deleting something? You wouldn't, that was the point. Someone was trying to turn that OFF for find; but find doesn't do that, so there was nothing to turn off. On the other hand, ls and the shells both sort by default, so there may have been some confusion there. mrc