From: Robert Klemme <shortcutter@...>
Date: 2007-03-10T19:50:05+09:00
Subject: Re: Find.find --- returns directories/files backwards

On 10.03.2007 01:33, Brad wrote:
> It seems to me when I run:
> Find.find('/user/name/documents') {|path| puts path}
> 
> it returns all the directories in the reverse order.  I was expecting
> the directories to be returned in alphabetical order, but that doesn't
> seem to be the case.  Also, in one case it reads half of a directory's
> files, then the sub dirs and then it finished reading the rest of the
> directory it started in and finished writing them in the Puts
> statement.
> 
> Am I missing something? How do you do get it to write out the
> directories in alphabetical order?

As others said already, the order is dictated by how the OS returns 
entries.  Here's another solution:

puts Dir['/user/name/documents/**/*'].sort

Kind regards

	robert