On 2014-06-11 Harald Dunkel <harald.dun...@aixigo.de> wrote: > Package: findutils > Version: 4.4.2-8
> The man page should be more precise about the difference > between "find . -size 2G", "find . -size -2G" and > "find . -size +2G". And it should say > -size [+-]n[cwbkMG] > Esp. "-size 2G" does not work as expected, since it lists > a lot of files smaller than 2GByte (=2147483648 Bytes) as > well. The man page says "exactly", but this is misleading. > Same goes for the other options expecting numerical arguments. [...] find.1 in 4.5.x includes some additional information: | The + and - prefixes signify greater than and less than, as usual, but | bear in mind that the size is rounded up to the next unit (so a 1-byte | file is not matched by -size -1M). cu Andreas -- `What a good friend you are to him, Dr. Maturin. His other friends are so grateful to you.' `I sew his ears on from time to time, sure'
