[bug #19349] doc bug on -size

[Mikkel Kirkgaard Nielsen]

Follow-up Comment #3, bug #19349 (project findutils):

Fell through the same hole today while using -size.

The +/- notation is not obvious at all when studying the syntax of a specific
test expression in the find man page. There is no indication that n could
include a prefix.

Thought the feature wasn't described at all after looking for it and finding
the nice explanation in the docs ("info find find expression"->"Primary
Index"->Size or
http://www.gnu.org/software/findutils/manual/html_mono/find.html#Size).
Only after searching for -size related bugs here and finding this closed
old-timer I noticed the paragraph in the beginning of TESTS.

Hinting its existence using "[+-]n" instead of just "n" in the syntax lines of
the TESTS paragraph would be an improvement. Thus -size would become;

-size [+-]n[cwbkMG]

instead of

-size n[cwbkMG]


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