Samuel Sieb wrote:
On 10/20/20 10:52 AM, Todd Zullinger wrote:
> Technically, it's a reasonable bet that a sub-directory
> will be created after the parent directory. But
> reasonable bets still involve more risk than it's worth
> when operating on your files. :)
I can't imagine how it could work like that. It has to go
recursively so it will *always* find the parent directory
first. How could a subdirectory possibly be created
before its parent directory?
It'd pretty unlikely for that to be the case, but you'd be
relying on the find command, the underlying readdir() system
calls, etc. which just don't guarantee an order.
So when handling needs to be done in an order, ensuring that
order via something like sort is the only sane way to script
such a task. It's along the lines of the old saying "trust,
but verify." :)
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Todd