find . -size +100000 doesn't seem to work
Jim Webb
jrw at hropus.UUCP
Tue Oct 14 18:59:37 AEST 1986
> 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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Jim Webb "Out of phase--get help" ...!ihnp4!hropus!jrw
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