Follow-up Comment #13, bug #12162 (project findutils): I see the "logic" of units, but this really isn't very intuitive behaviour, which is confirmed by the fact that more and more people run into this issue. Today it was me:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=466462 I think the best solution now really is to provide an alternative modifier for size parameter (not to break backward compatibility) as has been already mentioned in previous comments. As we do not have a big choice as far as available chars are concerned, we should choose better something than nothing. I vote for using -- and ++ which do not have to be escaped and (hopefully) will not break the findutils' test suite. ++ and -- does not seem that bad after all... find -size --1M find -size ++1M the only other that I can think of are _ and ^ find -size _1M find -size ^1M but I don't like them much... If the testsuite could be modified so that < and > are acceptable, I would probably vote for them because of their clear meaning (despite they have to be escaped). _______________________________________________________ Reply to this item at: <http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?12162> _______________________________________________ Message sent via/by Savannah http://savannah.gnu.org/
