Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!math.lsa.umich.edu!math.lsa.umich.edu!emv From: emv@math.lsa.umich.edu (Edward Vielmetti) Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions Subject: Re: Finding Large Files Message-ID: Date: 12 Oct 90 23:14:25 GMT References: <2141@megadon.UUCP> <1990Oct12.125125.15538@kodak.kodak.com> Sender: usenet@math.lsa.umich.edu Organization: University of Michigan Math Dept., Ann Arbor MI. Lines: 17 In-Reply-To: lrul00@dixel.Kodak.COM's message of 12 Oct 90 12:51:25 GMT In article <1990Oct12.125125.15538@kodak.kodak.com> lrul00@dixel.Kodak.COM (Richard C. Dempsey) writes: >Try, > find . -size +100 -print >unless I'm not understanding your problem you just need to use the - or +. The following three lines are taken from the man page for find(1) on SunOS 4.1, and are the entire discussion about the size qualifier. My interpretation is that the + syntax doesn't work on SunOS, at least. I wouldn't care to generalize to other flavors of Unix... try it, it work(ed) on SunOS 4.0.3, Ultrix 4.0, and BSD 4.3 (Vax). Learn something new every day... --Ed