Nicolas Thierry-Mieg wrote:
Nicolas Thierry-Mieg wrote:
Ala1n Sp1neu8 wrote:
Hello find /etc -size -1G
should return all files less than 1Giga byte in /etc, but return a list of empty file (size=0)
find /etc -size -2G
work fine and return all the files
This works the same on my fedora11 and my centos 5 !
Did I miss something or is it a bug ?
not sure, but: -1 strictly less than one, being an int that has got to be zero. G unit is GB.
I'm sure now, a simple test confirms this. +n : >=n, so behaves as expected -n : <n, n being an int, so that's <=n-1 which can make a big difference when you have a G behind that n.
Interesting. The man page is somewhat ambiguous on this point, but does hint at that when it mentions that it references a number of units, the unit being changeable, and defaults to 512 bytes.
So, then,
-size -1024M
should do what he wants, up to within 1MB blocks, but still doesn't reference bytes. To do it exactly by the byte, one would need -size -1073741824b
Mike