Hi,
I came across something in the `find` documentation while trying GNU
commands with SI Decimal (--SI) and IEC Binary Prefixes (--human-readable).
The ACTION `-ls` says it reports the size in 1K blocks. From reading the
info page on "Block Size", it looks more like `find -ls` is reporting the
size in 1 byte blocks. See Command output #1 and #3 verses #6 and #7.
From: man:find
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-ls True; list current file in ls -dils format on standard output.
The block counts are of 1K blocks....
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Similar text is in info:find. However, when itemizing each field of the
output the text correctly states bytes ("7. The file's size in bytes.").
From: info:/coreutils/Block size
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If none of the above environment variables are set, the block size currently
defaults to 1024 bytes in most contexts, but this number may change in the
future. For `ls' file sizes, the block size defaults to 1 byte.
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Commands:
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#1 find -maxdepth 1 -name out -ls
58933524 12 -rw-rw-r-- 1 user group 10000 May 13 17:19 ./out
#2 ls -dils out
58933524 12 -rw-rw-r-- 1 user group 10000 2011-05-13 17:19 out
#3 ls -l --block-size=1 out
-rw-rw-r-- 1 user group 10000 2011-05-13 17:19 out
#4 ls -l out
-rw-rw-r-- 1 user group 10000 2011-05-13 17:19 out
#5 wc -c out
10000 out
#6 ls -l --block-size=1K out
-rw-rw-r-- 1 user group 10 2011-05-13 17:19 out
#7 ls -lk out
-rw-rw-r-- 1 user group 10 2011-05-13 17:19 out
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Thank you.
Peggy Russell
