Find . -size -1GB in Centos

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In Centos, I have a text file in my home directory.

The command find . -size -1M doesn't show my file but find . -size -1000k does show it. This problem just seems to be happening when I use the number "1". The first command will work if I use -2M even though the file is only 500k in size.

Am I doing something wrong?

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find . -size -1M will only show file of size less than 1M, that is 0M. Yes, I know, it's confusing.

find . -size 1M will show you files whose size (rounded up to the upper MiB) is 1M (so any file size from 1 to 1048576). If you want from 0 to 1048575 (< 1M), that would be:

find . -size -1048576c

If you want from 0 to 1048576 (<= 1M)

find . -size -2M

find . ! -size +1M

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Simple command “find” not working

The syntax of find is not like what you have written, please read the manual page man find to get detailed idea.

For example if you want to find files named index.php on the current directory and all the sub directories under it, you can use:

find . -name index.php -type f

If you want to search for files having names say findex.php, index.phpfoo, index.php you need to use:

find . -name '*index.php*' -type f

* is a glob pattern meaning zero or more characters.

On the other hand if you want to look in the current directory only :

find . -maxdepth 1 -name '*index.php*' -type f

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