Friends -
I just noticed a difference in behavior between Cygwin's "find" and
the one in Linux, or
so it seems.
I was trying to locate files smaller than a given size, and thus ran
find . -size -4000c
That worked, and listed the file names only for files < 4000 bytes in
size. But if I run
find . -size -4000c -exec ls -l {} \;
it turns out that *all* files are listed! (Plus the small ones at the
end of the list.) This
surprised me. In other similar cases I've run in the past, the
earlier-in-the-command-line
filters took effect before the exec.
The Linux version of "find" doesn't operate that way: in the latter
case, only the "small"
files are passed to ls. And if one replaces "-4000c" with "+4000c",
it works as I'd expect.
And yeah, I tried escaping that minus sign for the Cygwin shell, a la
find . -size \-4000c -exec ls -l {} \;
Same unexpected (to me) result. Am I way outta whack here, of is this
a real problem?
Thanks!
cheers,
j. kev
jkev...@gmail.com
Monday, 2012.05.14 @ 1830 EDT
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