how to sort the linux find command by the path

Solution 1:

If you want content sorted, do it yourself. For a list of files, doing that safely means NUL-delimiting the names (so a file with a newline in its name doesn't get read as the names of two separate files and thus split apart during the sort process), and using sort -z (a GNU extension).

while IFS= read -r -d '' entry; do
  printf 'Processing: %s\n' "$entry"
done < <(find . -type f -print0 | sort -z)

See Using Find for guidance on using find reliably, and BashFAQ #1 for a discussion of the while read construct used here.

how to sort the linux find command by the path

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