On Sat, 2010-03-27 at 18:43 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Sat, 2010-03-27 at 15:34 -0500, Aaron Konstam wrote: > > > I think it's clear that he wants to find files of under 1Gb. That is > > not > > > what "find -size 1G" does. It gives a list of all files with > > non-zero > > > size, which is not the same thing. > > > > > > poc > > > > > > > Ok, lets settle this. Do you know what you say to be true? Have you > > tested it on files larger than 1G? I have no files that big so I > > can't test it. > > I said nothing about files larger than 1G. My remarks were in relation > to files of non-zero size. > > In any case, testing this is easy: > > $ mkdir tst > $ cd tst > $ touch a > $ dd if=/dev/zero obs=1c count=1 of=b > $ dd if=/dev/zero obs=1c count=1 seek=1073741824 of=c > $ ls -l > total 8 > -rw-rw-r-- 1 poc poc 0 2010-03-27 18:34 a > -rw-rw-r-- 1 poc poc 512 2010-03-27 18:34 b > -rw-rw-r-- 1 poc poc 1073742336 2010-03-27 18:34 c > $ find tst -size -1G > a > $ find tst -size 1G > b > $ find tst -size +1G > c > > IOW, the "-size 1G" variant lists files of size greater than zero and not greater than 1G. > > poc > Well we finally agree. Hurrah :-) -- ======================================================================= has /usr/bin/emacs been put into /etc/shells yet? :P ======================================================================= Aaron Konstam telephone: (210) 656-0355 e-mail: akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines