find . -size +100000 doesn't seem to work

[Mike Wescott]

In article <2300 at psuvax1.UUCP> ehrlich at psuvax1.UUCP (Dan Ehrlich) writes:
> 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".

This is correct, but the 4.2BSD manual also says:

	-size n   True is the file is n blocks long.

100000 blocks long means roughly 51Mb in the file.  A very big file.  System V
find allows the number to be followed by the letter "c" indicating that the
size is in characters, not blocks.
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