Re: find /etc -size -1G return only empty files

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On 03/25/2010 11:16 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> On Thu, 2010-03-25 at 10:19 -0400, Kevin J. Cummings wrote:
>> On 03/25/2010 02:45 AM, Ala1n Sp1neu8 wrote:
>>> Hello
>>> find /etc -size -1G
>>
>> Get rid of the "-" before the 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 ?
>>
>> You missed something.  B^)
> 
>>From "info find":
> 
>      The number can be prefixed with a `+' or a `-'.  A plus sign
>      indicates that the test should succeed if the file uses at least N
>      units of storage (a common use of this test) and a minus sign
>      indicates that the test should succeed if the file uses less than
>      N units of storage.  There is no `=' prefix, because that's the
>      default anyway.
> 
> Note that this clarification is not present in the man page find(1). So
> it's either a bug in find or a bug in the documentation.

When I ran the command as "-size 1G", it returned all the files less
than 1GB in size (I'm not sure if /etc *has* any files greater than
1GB!)  So, I agree, its either a bug in the documentation or in find.
Bugzilla it!  Let's hear from the developers.

> poc

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