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From: dave@lsuc.UUCP (David Sherman)
Newsgroups: net.bugs.4bsd,net.unix-wizards
Subject: Re: Patch to find(1) to find large files.
Message-ID: <669@lsuc.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 14-Jun-85 09:37:59 EDT
Article-I.D.: lsuc.669
Posted: Fri Jun 14 09:37:59 1985
Date-Received: Fri, 14-Jun-85 09:45:43 EDT
References: <1842@ukma.UUCP> <663@lsuc.UUCP> <1315@hammer.UUCP>
Reply-To: dave@lsuc.UUCP (David Sherman)
Organization: Law Society of Upper Canada, Toronto
Lines: 23
Summary: Use  size +n

In article <1315@hammer.UUCP> dce@hammer.UUCP (David Elliott) writes:
||In article <663@lsuc.UUCP> dave@lsuc.UUCP (David Sherman) writes:
||>Foo, grumble and feh! find(1) already has a "-size" option.
||>If you want to compare size against another file, it's
||>trivial to write a one-line awk script which feeds the right
||>information to find(1).
||>
||>Dave Sherman
||Put your money where your mouth is, Dave. The above note would
||imply that you can write an awk script that would generate a
||find command that looks something like this:
||
||	find dir \( -size n -o -size n+1 -o -size n+2 ... \)

No, I don't need an awk script for that, I type
	find dir -size +n ...

The awk script is to compare size against another file - for
that you'd run ls and use awk to extract the size to compare against.

Dave Sherman
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