Hey Bernhard, Thanks for the response.
> The man page of GNU find(1) is quite clear about the order (right at the top > of the page): > https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/findutils.git/tree/find/find.1?id=9a6b5821#n13 > > GNU find searches the directory tree rooted at each given starting-point by > evaluating the given expression from left to right, [...] I had read this line, but originally interpreted it only to mean that the "expression" argument, consisting of the filters and flags, has this guarantee — a strict order of filters/expressions may be helpful for careful application of any side-effects like -delete. Looking again I think the man page is a little unclear here. > P.S. The order of output for files found _below_ a starting point is not > defined, though. Thankfully I don't care about this! Cheers, Ronan
