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[LukeKendall <luke@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Public bug reported:

If I have a file of size less than 1k, and use:
    find -size -1k
to try to find it, it doesn't.
If I use
     find -size -1000c
it does find it.  If I use
    find -size -2k
to find it, it does.  It seems like the parsing of units is wrong when you use 'k' for the size units.

$ ls -l testf*
-rw-rw---- 1 luke kendall 1071 Oct 26 17:06 testf
-rw-rw---- 1 luke kendall  803 Oct 26 17:07 testf2
-rw-rw---- 1 luke kendall  963 Oct 26 17:07 testf3
$ find testf3 -size -1k -print
$ find testf3 -size -2k -print
testf3
$ find testf -size -2k -print
$ find testf -size -3k -print
testf
$ find --version
find (GNU findutils) 4.4.2
Copyright (C) 2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.

Written by Eric B. Decker, James Youngman, and Kevin Dalley.
Built using GNU gnulib version e5573b1bad88bfabcda181b9e0125fb0c52b7d3b
Features enabled: D_TYPE O_NOFOLLOW(enabled) LEAF_OPTIMISATION FTS() CBO(level=0) 

$ lsb_release -rd
Description:	Ubuntu 14.04.1 LTS
Release:	14.04
Package name is findutils

I expected find -size -Nk to list a file if it is smaller than N kb.
Instead, the file is only listed if it is smaller than (N+1) kb.

** Affects: findutils (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

** Attachment added: "Three ultra-simple test files"
   https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1385813/+attachment/4245080/+files/test-files.zip

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Title:
  find -size -Nk seems to be off by 1

Status in “findutils” package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  If I have a file of size less than 1k, and use:
      find -size -1k
  to try to find it, it doesn't.
  If I use
       find -size -1000c
  it does find it.  If I use
      find -size -2k
  to find it, it does.  It seems like the parsing of units is wrong when you use 'k' for the size units.

  $ ls -l testf*
  -rw-rw---- 1 luke kendall 1071 Oct 26 17:06 testf
  -rw-rw---- 1 luke kendall  803 Oct 26 17:07 testf2
  -rw-rw---- 1 luke kendall  963 Oct 26 17:07 testf3
  $ find testf3 -size -1k -print
  $ find testf3 -size -2k -print
  testf3
  $ find testf -size -2k -print
  $ find testf -size -3k -print
  testf
  $ find --version
  find (GNU findutils) 4.4.2
  Copyright (C) 2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
  License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>
  This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
  There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.

  Written by Eric B. Decker, James Youngman, and Kevin Dalley.
  Built using GNU gnulib version e5573b1bad88bfabcda181b9e0125fb0c52b7d3b
  Features enabled: D_TYPE O_NOFOLLOW(enabled) LEAF_OPTIMISATION FTS() CBO(level=0) 

  $ lsb_release -rd
  Description:	Ubuntu 14.04.1 LTS
  Release:	14.04
  Package name is findutils

  I expected find -size -Nk to list a file if it is smaller than N kb.
  Instead, the file is only listed if it is smaller than (N+1) kb.

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