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Top Forums UNIX for Beginners Questions & Answers Weird 'find' results Post 302991816 by bodisha on Thursday 16th of February 2017 01:25:56 PM
Old 02-16-2017
Weird 'find' results

Hello and thanks in advance for any help anyone can offer me

I'm trying to learn the find command and thought I was understanding it... Apparently I was wrong. I was doing compound searches and I started getting weird results with the -size test. I was trying to do a search on a 1G file owned by the user database. I was expecting to get a single file back, but for some reason the find returns not only the 1G file but the scripting files owned by the database user. I've been messing with this for a while trying to understand it. I can filter it out by using a -not -name ".*" but that's not the point. I want to understand why it's including the start up scripts & what I'm doing wrong. Here's the command and the results... If someone could tell me what I'm doing wrong I would greatly appreciate it!!!

Code:
find /home -type f -user database -size 1G -ls
13774125 4 -rw-r--r-- 1 database database 18 Nov 20 2015 /home/database/.bash_logout
13774135 4 -rw-r--r-- 1 database database 193 Nov 20 2015 /home/database/.bash_profile
13774136 4 -rw-r--r-- 1 database database 231 Nov 20 2015 /home/database/.bashrc
13774141 1048576 -rw-r--r-- 1 database root 1073741824 Feb 16 11:10 /home/database/large1.log


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hal-find(1M)						  System Administration Commands					      hal-find(1M)

NAME
hal-find, hal-find-by-capability, hal-find-by-property - search HAL global device list SYNOPSIS
hal-find-by-capability --capability capability [--help] [--verbose] [--version] hal-find-by-property --key key --string value [--help] [--verbose] [--version] DESCRIPTION
The hal-find commands, hal-find-by-capability and hal-find-by-property, search the Hardware Abstraction Layer (HAL) device list by speci- fied criteria and displays results on the standard output. hal-find-by-capability searches by capability, such as volume or block. hal- find-by-property searches by property, such as block.is_volume or volume.disc.has_audio. OPTIONS
The following options are supported: --capability capability HAL device capability to search for. --help Display list of options. --key key The key to the property that is the basis of the search. --string value The string value associated with the property that is the basis of the search. --verbose Verbose mode. --version Display version and exit. ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes: +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ | ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |Availability |SUNWhalr | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |Interface Stability |Volatile | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ SEE ALSO
hald(1M), attributes(5), hal(5) SunOS 5.11 22 Aug 2006 hal-find(1M)
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