Problem with find(1)

rew wilber at alice.att.com
Tue Feb 5 13:55:26 AEST 1991


In article <286 at ramecs.UUCP> car at ramecs.UUCP (Chris Rende) writes:
>I use the following commands to look for large news postings:
>find . -type f -size +3500c -print -exec fgrep Subject: {} \;
>However, the "find . -size +3500c" doesn't work on my 3b1. :-(
>NO files are EVER found - whether larger or smaller than 3500 characters.

The manual says nothing about recognizing the 'c' suffix.
For the 3b1, the size is always in 512 byte blocks.

Bob Wilber   wilber at homxb.att.com



More information about the Comp.sys.3b1 mailing list