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.