On 2015-11-14 David Staron <da...@staron.nl> wrote: > Hello, I noticed some strange behaviour of the ‘-size’ option of > ‘find’, it doesn’t seem to behave like documented here > <https://www.gnu.org/software/findutils/manual/html_mono/find.html#Size> > , and i read this is the mailing list to report it. Please see > below, i doubt it’s a bug… but does this make any sense to anyone?
Hello, | -size n[cwbkMG] | File uses n units of space. The following suffixes can be used: | [...] | `M' for Megabytes (units of 1048576 bytes) "-size 1M" is *not* a shorthand for "-size 1048576". The formers checks how many units of 1048576 bytes each a files uses, where partly used counts as used. [...] > root /etc/apache2/sites-available # ls -lah > total 24K > drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4.0K Nov 14 21:21 . > drwxr-xr-x 8 root root 4.0K Nov 14 20:37 .. > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2.0K Nov 14 19:33 000-default.conf > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 6.3K Feb 1 2015 default-ssl.conf [...] All files are nonzero but smaller than 1 MB, each of these uses 1 "unit of 1048576 bytes" and will match 1M or +0M. cu Andreas -- `What a good friend you are to him, Dr. Maturin. His other friends are so grateful to you.' `I sew his ears on from time to time, sure'
