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

[Rick Stevens]

On 03/25/2010 10:13 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> On Thu, 2010-03-25 at 13:04 -0400, Kevin J. Cummings wrote:
>>> 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.
>>
>> When I ran the command as "-size 1G", it returned all the files less
>> than 1GB in size (I'm not sure if /etc *has* any files greater than
>> 1GB!)  So, I agree, its either a bug in the documentation or in find.
>> Bugzilla it!  Let's hear from the developers.
>
> Are you sure? In my case it returned only the zero-length files, same as
> what the OP reported. This is on F12, just in case.

Interesting.  On both F11 and F12 here:

	# find /etc -size 1G -exec ls -lh \{\} \;

run as root finds files <1G as confirmed by the "ls" bit of the command.

On F11:

	[root at prophead ~]# find --version
	find (GNU findutils) 4.4.0

On F12:

	[root at bigdog ~]# find --version
	find (GNU findutils) 4.4.2

Hope that helps.
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