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

Patrick O'Callaghan pocallaghan at gmail.com
Thu Mar 25 17:44:08 UTC 2010


On Thu, 2010-03-25 at 10:21 -0700, Rick Stevens wrote:
>         # find /etc -size 1G -exec ls -lh \{\} \;
> 
> run as root finds files <1G as confirmed by the "ls" bit of the
> command.

The OP's test (and mine) was with "-size -1G". Your test uses "-size 1G"
but (incorrectly) gives the result expected for "-size -1G".

This really should be reported. It would be appropriate for the OP to do
so as he found it.

poc



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