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From: jrw@hropus.UUCP (Jim Webb)
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards
Subject: Re: find . -size +100000 doesn't seem to work
Message-ID: <729@hropus.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 14-Oct-86 04:59:37 EDT
Article-I.D.: hropus.729
Posted: Tue Oct 14 04:59:37 1986
Date-Received: Fri, 17-Oct-86 07:12:56 EDT
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Organization: Bell Labs, Holmdel, NJ
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Keywords: find bug

> I have been trying to use find to locate files larger than a given size
> in our /usr/spool/mail directory.  Running as root the following command
> is issued:
> 
> 	# find /usr/spool/mail -size +100000 -print
> 
> No output is generated.  Can someone give me a hint as to what is going
> on?  The man page says that "+n" means "more than n".  Is this a bug in
> the find program?

If you have 100000 BLOCK files sitting around, you have more 
problems than find :-).  At least with SVR2, -size +100000c will show
you all files larger than 100000 bytes long, but since you are looking
in /usr/spool/mail, I guess you aren't SV...
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