On 2025-06-07 Scott Baker <sc...@perturb.org> wrote: > I'm trying to find all the files in /tmp/ that less than 1MB.
> mkdir /tmp/scott > cd /tmp/scott > echo "Hello world" > test.txt > find . -size -1M -type f # doesn't work > find . -size -2M -type f # works > find . -size -1024k -type f # works > From what I can tell doing -size -1[kMG] doesn't output any files? It's > pretty easy to use a non-one number with size but it's a footgun that it > doesn't work like the user would expect. Quoting find(1): The + and - prefixes signify greater than and less than, as usual; i.e., an exact size of n units does not match. Bear in mind that the size is rounded up to the next unit. Therefore -size -1M is not equivalent to -size -1048576c. The former only matches empty files, the latter matches files from 0 to 1,048,575 bytes. 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'