Bug#258262: ITP: sortdir -- wrapper program to make files show up in sorted order

[Nicolas Boullis <nboullis@debian.org>]

On Thu, Jul 08, 2004 at 09:02:27PM +0200, Gergely Nagy wrote:
> > * Package name    : sortdir
> >   Version         : 0.4
> >   Upstream Author : Egmont Koblinger <egmont@uhulinux.hu>
> > * URL             : http://download.uhulinux.hu/sources/sortdir/
> > * License         : LGPL
> >   Description     : wrapper program to make files show up in sorted order
> > 
> > This small wrapper program will make other programs see files and
> > directories in a consistent, sorted order. This is e.g. usefull if you 
> > want your tarballs to be a bit more rsyncable.
> 
> How is this better than tar cvf foo.tar $(find foo | sort) ?

I guess that if you try to do it for something ass big as the kernel
source tree (for example), you would exceed both the maximal number of
arguments and the maximal length of the command line. Moreover, that
would fail with oddly-named files/directories that contain spaces,
carriage returns or tabs in their name...


Nicolas