Mike McCarty wrote: > 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 nitpicking, that should be -1073741825b and should be identical to -1025M or just use -2G: that's "up to 1GB", should be the same