Re: -size option

[Andreas Metzler]

On 2015-11-14 David Staron <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hello, I noticed some strange behaviour of the ‘-size’ option of
> ‘find’, it doesn’t seem to behave like documented here
> <https://www.gnu.org/software/findutils/manual/html_mono/find.html#Size>
> , and i read this is the mailing list to report it. Please see
> below, i doubt it’s a bug… but does this make any sense to anyone?

Hello,

| -size n[cwbkMG]
| File uses n units of space.  The following suffixes can be used:
| [...]
| `M'    for Megabytes (units of 1048576 bytes)

"-size 1M" is *not* a shorthand for "-size 1048576". The formers checks
how many units of 1048576 bytes each a files uses, where partly used
counts as used.


[...]
> root /etc/apache2/sites-available # ls -lah
> total 24K
> drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4.0K Nov 14 21:21 .
> drwxr-xr-x 8 root root 4.0K Nov 14 20:37 ..
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2.0K Nov 14 19:33 000-default.conf
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 6.3K Feb  1  2015 default-ssl.conf
[...]

All files are nonzero but smaller than 1 MB, each of these uses 1
"unit of 1048576 bytes" and will match 1M or +0M.

cu Andreas
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