On Thu, 2010-03-25 at 14:20 -0700, Rick Stevens wrote: > On 03/25/2010 01:57 PM, Aaron Konstam wrote: > > On Thu, 2010-03-25 at 12:43 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > >> On Thu, 2010-03-25 at 13:04 -0400, Kevin J. Cummings wrote: > >>>> 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. > >> > >> Are you sure? In my case it returned only the zero-length files, same as > >> what the OP reported. This is on F12, just in case. > >> > >> poc > >> > > That is how it works for me. zero length files are not returned. > > After reading all the replies to this thread, I must agree that the > "-1G" does work as the documents say, but it sure as hell is misleading. > > As I suspect most did, I read (past tense) "-1G" as "return files less > than 1GB in size" (and I've been in the business a LONG time). However, > the docs DO say that the "G" bit means "use gigabyte blocks", so only > zero-length files fit that criteria and would be displayed (even a > 1-byte file uses part of that first 1G block). > > With all that being said, it is bloody misleading. It'd be nice if the > maintainers could offer some way to do the inferred (by most) > behavior. Perhaps "-1Gc" (less than 1 gigacharacters). As it stands, > you'd need to use "-1099511627776c" to get the inferred behavior and > that's a right pain. No, find -size 1G will do what you want. -- ======================================================================= Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they're going to catch you in next. -- Franklin P. Jones ======================================================================= 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
