```
$ touch dir/{{1..8},{a..p}}
$ tar cJvf file.tar.xz dir/
dir/
dir/o
dir/k
dir/b
dir/3
dir/1
dir/i
dir/7
dir/4
dir/e
dir/a
dir/g
dir/2
dir/d
dir/5
dir/8
dir/c
dir/n
dir/f
dir/h
dir/6
dir/l
dir/m
dir/j
dir/p

```

I would have expected it to be alphabetical. But apparently it's not. What's the formula, here?