[bug #36539] -size flag seems to be broken

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URL:
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                 Summary: -size flag seems to be broken
                 Project: findutils
            Submitted by: None
            Submitted on: Fri 25 May 2012 06:34:57 PM UTC
                Category: find
                Severity: 3 - Normal
              Item Group: Wrong result
                  Status: None
                 Privacy: Public
             Assigned to: None
         Originator Name: Patrick O'Neill
        Originator Email: address@hidden
             Open/Closed: Open
         Discussion Lock: Any
                 Release: 4.4.2
           Fixed Release: None

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Details:

The -size flag for GNU find behaves strangely. Let's say I have the following
three files in a directory:

$ lh
total 8.7M
-rw------- 1 wvoq wvoq  42K 2012-05-24 18:25 small
-rw------- 1 wvoq wvoq 7.3K 2012-05-24 18:37 tiny
-rw------- 1 wvoq wvoq 8.7M 2012-05-24 18:37 big

Two of the files are less than 1MB, and the other is about 9MB. Which of the
files are less than 50K in size?

$ find -type f -size -50k
small
tiny

Which is what we expect. But which are less than 1MB in size?

$ find -type f -size -1M
$

Necessarily, any file less than 50k is also less than 1M, so why the
discrepancy? Even more disturbingly, we have:

$ find -type f -size -2M
small
tiny

which would seem to suggest that small and tiny are between 1 and 2 MB in
size, when in fact they are both <50k.

(cf.
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10759111/is-the-gnu-find-size-flag-broken)




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