[CentOS] find /etc -size -1G return only empty files

Thu Mar 25 23:42:25 UTC 2010
Jobst Schmalenbach <jobst at barrett.com.au>

Its not a bug, its a feature ... and this is not a joke.

You [de|re]fine the search with the suffices you supply making it
possible to hand "find" a granularity mechanism that indeed makes
find a very powerful utilitiy.


Jobst
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On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 06:16:40PM -0500, Les Mikesell (lesmikesell at gmail.com) wrote:
> On 3/25/2010 6:07 PM, Jobst Schmalenbach wrote:
> > On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 07:45:14AM +0100, Ala1n Sp1neu8 (aspineux at gmail.com) wrote:
> >> Hello
> >> find /etc -size -1G
> >
> > Very interesting way of finding all files with a file size of 0 ;-)
> 
> What's interesting is that the program doesn't do the unit scale 
> multiply as the first math operation. I'd call that a bug.
> 
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