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

[Rick Stevens]

On 03/25/2010 10:44 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> 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.

You are correct.  Doing "-size -1G" on both F11 and F12 return only
zero-length files.  Yep, that's a bug in my book.
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