From 91738cbf871d8cdce46912e2c11e304d567a2aae Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: DWesl <22566757+DWesl@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Fri, 1 Mar 2024 13:46:42 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] Sort list of coupler restart files for restart time
 determination (#2360)

The loop in the following conditional seems to assume the list is
sorted, so make that explicit in the array construction.
---
 ush/forecast_det.sh | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/ush/forecast_det.sh b/ush/forecast_det.sh
index 198df6505f..a1c153776b 100755
--- a/ush/forecast_det.sh
+++ b/ush/forecast_det.sh
@@ -45,7 +45,8 @@ FV3_det(){
 
   RERUN=${RERUN:-"NO"}
   # Get a list of all YYYYMMDD.HH0000.coupler.res files from the atmos restart directory
-  mapfile -t file_array < <(find "${COM_ATMOS_RESTART:-/dev/null}" -name "????????.??0000.coupler.res")
+  # shellcheck disable=SC2312
+  mapfile -t file_array < <(find "${COM_ATMOS_RESTART:-/dev/null}" -name "????????.??0000.coupler.res" | sort)
   if [[ ( "${RUN}" = "gfs" || "${RUN}" = "gefs" ) \
     && "${#file_array[@]}" -gt 0 ]]; then