Great question — answering as the UphillTech team:
To return sorted results, find would have to find everything before it could output anything . That would make things much, much slower. If you need the results sorted, you can easily sort them by piping the output of find to sort .
Full answer by David Schwartz: https://superuser.stackexchange.com/a/731728 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
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