I wasnt familiar with + but it changes the default behavior of this;
find /path -name something -exec ls -lS {} \;
which will run ls -lS once for each file, and therefore Sort doesnt work as
its only sorting a single filefind /patch -name something -exec -ls -lS + which runs ls -lS once against all the files that find finds (added as additional arguments), and therefore Sort works.

