Interesting. Once find -ls hits the large file (.rar), 1053966 45284 -r--r--r-- 1 jidanni jidanni 46367774 Jul 12 2015 dongshi/JPGS/63-004-0164.jpg 1053957 55608 -r--r--r-- 1 jidanni jidanni 56940981 Jul 12 2015 dongshi/JPGS/58-055-140.jpg 1053965 600 -r--r--r-- 1 jidanni jidanni 612100 Aug 7 2016 dongshi/JPGS/53-022-012EASTsmall.jpg 1053951 377032 -r--r--r-- 1 jidanni jidanni 386073947 Jul 12 2015 dongshi/JPGS/map_20150712.rar 1182179 14740 -rw-r--r-- 1 jidanni jidanni 15093412 May 31 10:25 dongshi/JPGS/06-7377E-001A.jpg 1053955 624 -r--r--r-- 1 jidanni jidanni 638323 Aug 6 2016 dongshi/JPGS/62-010-0093WYK3.jpg 1053953 172 -rw-r--r-- 1 jidanni jidanni 174671 Jul 30 2015 dongshi/JPGS/wyk2.jpg 1182381 44392 -rw-r--r-- 1 jidanni jidanni 45455655 Feb 19 2018 dongshi/JPGS/62-007-0399gamma.jpg 1182348 4 drwxr-xr-x 2 jidanni jidanni 4096 Jun 7 06:20 dongshi/58-055-140 1182184 4 -rw-r--r-- 1 jidanni jidanni 373 Jun 1 09:32 dongshi/58-055-140/GEoverlays.kml 1182380 4 -rw-r--r-- 1 jidanni jidanni 307 Feb 19 2018 dongshi/58-055-140/58-055-140small.jpg.cal 1182350 4 drwxr-xr-x 2 jidanni jidanni 4096 Jun 7 06:20 dongshi/62-010-0056 its character columns get knocked over by 1, and it never recovers. Even more interesting is "jidanni 386073947" has two spaces in it, while all that is needed to maintain the proper number of items in a row is one! "1053951 377032" has one, so why does byte count always need at least two? find (GNU findutils) 4.6.0.232-9930.