"ls" sorts wrongly if given large number of files

"ls" sorts wrongly if given large number of files

[Kamran]

Hi all

"ls" (version 8.26) sorts wrongly if given large number of files via 
"find" or "xargs"

For example:

find -type f -exec ls -oS -h {} +

OR

find -type f -print0 | xargs -0r ls -oS -h

Gives following data. Sorry for the long listing, and wrapped lines. But 
search for "setup.ini" which is about 17 MB, it is sorted AFTER very 
small files.

In fact it seams that sorting is restarted from that file (subsequent 
files are again sorted). Note also that removing "-h" from "ls" command 
lines results in the same problem.

(output is trimmed to remove unnecessary data, i.e. 
perms/user/date-time, but order is the same)

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Islamabad, Pakistan

Re: "ls" sorts wrongly if given large number of files

[Frank-Ulrich Sommer]

Am 06.01.2021 um 19:17 schrieb Kamran via Cygwin:
> Hi all
>
> "ls" (version 8.26) sorts wrongly if given large number of files via "find" or "xargs"
>
> For example:
>
> find -type f -exec ls -oS -h {} +
>
> OR
>
> find -type f -print0 | xargs -0r ls -oS -h
>
> Gives following data. Sorry for the long listing, and wrapped lines. But search for "setup.ini" which is about 17 MB, it is sorted AFTER very small files.
>
> In fact it seams that sorting is restarted from that file (subsequent files are again sorted). Note also that removing "-h" from "ls" command lines results in the same problem.
>
> (output is trimmed to remove unnecessary data, i.e. perms/user/date-time, but order is the same)
>
>  26M ./release/gcc/gcc-core/gcc-core-10.2.0-1.tar.xz
>  24M ./release/binutils/binutils-2.34+1git.de9c1b7cfe-1.tar.xz
> [...]
> 108 ./release/python2/python/python-2.7.16-1.tar.xz
>  108 ./release/python-gobject/python-gobject-2.28.7-1.tar.xz
>   46 ./release/tcl-tk/tcltk/tcltk-20120206-1.tar.bz2
>   32 ./release/man-db/man/man-2.6.7-2.tar.xz
>   32 ./release/popt/popt-1.16-2.tar.xz
>   32 ./release/procps-ng/procps/procps-3.3.10-1.tar.xz
>  17M ./setup.ini
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> 1.8M ./release/vim/vim-doc/vim-doc-8.2.0486-1.tar.xz
> [...]
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>  12K ./release/util-linux/libuuid1/libuuid1-2.33.1-2.tar.xz
>
xargs uses multiple calls to ls and find calls ls once for each matching file so in the two mentioned cases ls will not get to see the full list and thus can't sort all the files. This is the expected bahviour and not special to cygwin.

Re: "ls" sorts wrongly if given large number of files

[Brian Inglis]

On 2021-01-06 11:17, Kamran via Cygwin wrote:
> "ls" (version 8.26) sorts wrongly if given large number of files via "find" or 
> "xargs"
> 
> For example:
> 
> find -type f -exec ls -oS -h {} +
> 
> OR
> 
> find -type f -print0 | xargs -0r ls -oS -h
> 
> Gives following data. Sorry for the long listing, and wrapped lines. But search 
> for "setup.ini" which is about 17 MB, it is sorted AFTER very small files.
> 
> In fact it seams that sorting is restarted from that file (subsequent files are 
> again sorted). Note also that removing "-h" from "ls" command lines results in 
> the same problem.
> 
> (output is trimmed to remove unnecessary data, i.e. perms/user/date-time, but 
> order is the same)

Shells and programs have limited command line lengths, so the target program may 
be run multiple times by find or xargs, more times when the file path names are 
long, as fewer file path names can fit in each command line, so output line 
lengths from ls and numbers of files sorted together will vary.
You can reduce this impact by changing to the closest common directory to your 
files, and using shell and ls options and features to get similar results e.g.

$ ( cd .../release/; ls -hoS **/*.{tar.*z*,ini}; )

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Take care. Thanks, Brian Inglis, Calgary, Alberta, Canada

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Re: "ls" sorts wrongly if given large number of files

[Eliot Moss]

Here's a wondering ...

In Linux, and I suspect Cygwin, etc., as well, there are two notions of
"size".  One is the amount fo storage the file consumes.  The other is the
position just after the last byte in the file.  These can be different because
of _holes_ in the middle of files.  17M for a setup.ini file sounds
suspiciously large.  I wonder if that file has a hole in it?

Try:

ls -os --block-size=1

(See https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/436314/how-to-get-the-physical-size-of-a-file-in-linux.)

Regards - Eliot Moss

Re: "ls" sorts wrongly if given large number of files

[Hans-Bernhard Bröker]

Am 06.01.2021 um 19:17 schrieb Kamran via Cygwin:
> Hi all
> 
> "ls" (version 8.26) sorts wrongly if given large number of files via 
> "find" or "xargs"


Actually ls is working just fine here.  You just misunderstand how 
"find" works in this case.

To see what actually happens, you should run

	find -type f -exec echo {} +  | wc -l

in that same directory you did your test case in.   You'll find it does 
_not_ print 1.  Now ponder what that means.

For further information, RTFM at:

	info "finding files" Actions run multi

about how find builds the command lines it sends to the programs to be 
run by "-exec"