find /etc -size -1G return only empty files

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Thu, 2010-03-25 at 10:19 -0400, Kevin J. Cummings wrote:
> On 03/25/2010 02:45 AM, Ala1n Sp1neu8 wrote:
> > Hello
> > find /etc -size -1G
> 
> Get rid of the "-" before the 1G....
> 
> > should return all files less than 1Giga byte in /etc, but return a
> > list of empty file (size=0)
> > 
> > find /etc -size -2G
> > 
> > work fine and return all the files
> > 
> > This works the same  on my fedora11 and my centos 5 !
> > 
> > Did I miss something or is it a bug ?
> 
> You missed something.  B^)

>From "info find":

     The number can be prefixed with a `+' or a `-'.  A plus sign
     indicates that the test should succeed if the file uses at least N
     units of storage (a common use of this test) and a minus sign
     indicates that the test should succeed if the file uses less than
     N units of storage.  There is no `=' prefix, because that's the
     default anyway.

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.

poc