On Thu, Jul 08, 2004 at 09:02:27PM +0200, Gergely Nagy wrote: > How is this better than tar cvf foo.tar $(find foo | sort) ? > > Most programs, those with some kind of UI already support this, > methinks. On the command line, it is so trivial to list files in > alphabetical order, that it hurts. ok, the description is a bit misleading and should/will be fixed. the purpose is to make tools that can't sort files do it anyway. probably the better way would be to patch these tools, but hey... cu robert -- Robert Lemmen http://www.semistable.com
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