Debian Bug report logs - #208307
Bug#208307: Documentation for '-printf %k' insufficient

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Message #5 received at submit@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Christian Fughe <C.M.Fughe@wtb.tue.nl>

To: submit@bugs.debian.org

Subject: option '-printf %k' returns wrong values

Date: Tue, 2 Sep 2003 02:48:05 +0200 (CEST)

Package: findutils
Version: 4.1.20-1

The file 'test.txt' has 4834221 bytes.

'find -name text.txt -printf %k' returns

4736

while I do expect:

4720.91 = 4834221/1024



Debian _Sid_ from 23 Aug. 2003

kernel  2.4.21
libc6   2.3.2-4


Regards,

        Christian

Message #12 received at 208307-submitter@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Andreas Metzler <ametzler@downhill.at.eu.org>

To: 208307-submitter@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#208307: option '-printf %k' returns wrong values

Date: Tue, 2 Sep 2003 11:58:49 +0200

severity 208307 minor
retitle 208307 Bug#208307: Documentation for '-printf %k' insufficient
thank
On Tue, Sep 02, 2003 at 02:48:05AM +0200, Christian Fughe wrote:
> Package: findutils
> Version: 4.1.20-1
> 
> The file 'test.txt' has 4834221 bytes.
> 
> 'find -name text.txt -printf %k' returns
> 
> 4736
> 
> while I do expect:
> 
> 4720.91 = 4834221/1024
[...]

Hello,
It is not that simple.

Find prints how much space the file actually takes up on the disk
(st_blocks from stat(2)).

If you used an ext3 filesystem with a blocksize of 4096 bytes, a file
with a size of 5k will take up two blocks of 4096 bytes and find will
correctly report that it uses 8k on -printf %k.[1]

I agree that find's (info) documentation

|  %k     File's size in 1K blocks (rounded up).
|  %s     File's size in bytes.

is too short and fails to convey this difference. I will forward this
to upstream and ask them to use e.g. the corresponding entry of ls's
info-docs for -s in find's info.
|      Print the disk allocation of each file to the left of the file
|      name.  This is the amount of disk space used by the file, which is
|      usually a bit more than the file's size, but it can be less if the
|      file has holes.

           thanks, cu andreas
[1] This simple correlation does not hold for bigger files on ext3,
an 400k file will use 101 blocks, it will hold e.g. on reiserfs,
though.

Message #17 received at 208307-submitter@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Andreas Metzler <ametzler@downhill.at.eu.org>

To: 208307-submitter@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#208307: option '-printf %k' returns wrong values

Date: Tue, 2 Sep 2003 13:52:48 +0200

forwarded 208307 bug-findutils@gnu.org
thank
On Tue, Sep 02, 2003 at 11:58:49AM +0200, Andreas Metzler wrote:
[...] 
> I agree that find's (info) documentation
> 
> |  %k     File's size in 1K blocks (rounded up).
> |  %s     File's size in bytes.
> 
> is too short and fails to convey this difference. I will forward this
> to upstream and ask them to use e.g. the corresponding entry of ls's
> info-docs for -s in find's info.

[o] Done.
http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?func=detailbug&bug_id=5034&group_id=61
             cu andreas

Message #20 received at 208307-submitter@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: James Youngman <jay@gnu.org>

To: 208307-submitter@bugs.debian.org

Subject: fixed upstream

Date: Sat, 3 Jan 2004 21:30:21 +0000

Thsi si now fixed in the upstream CVS code
-- 
James Youngman.
CSSC Bug reporting page:       http://sf.net/tracker/?group_id=8064&atid=108064
GNU Findutils bug reporting page: http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?group=findutils

Message #25 received at 208307@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Andreas Metzler <ametzler@downhill.at.eu.org>

To: 208307@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#208307: option '-printf %k' returns wrong values

Date: Sat, 13 Mar 2004 18:13:58 +0100

tags 208307 fixed-upstream
thanks
On 2003-09-02 Andreas Metzler <ametzler@downhill.at.eu.org> wrote:
[...]
> I agree that find's (info) documentation
[...]
> is too short and fails to convey this difference. 
[...]

According to
http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?func=detailitem&item_id=5034 fixed in
CVS.
             cu andreas
-- 
"See, I told you they'd listen to Reason," [SPOILER] Svfurlr fnlf,
fuhggvat qbja gur juveyvat tha.
Neal Stephenson in "Snow Crash"

Message #32 received at 208307-close@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Andreas Metzler <ametzler@debian.org>

To: 208307-close@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Bug#208307: fixed in findutils 4.2.22-1

Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2005 15:47:34 -0400

Source: findutils
Source-Version: 4.2.22-1

We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
findutils, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive:

findutils_4.2.22-1.diff.gz
  to pool/main/f/findutils/findutils_4.2.22-1.diff.gz
findutils_4.2.22-1.dsc
  to pool/main/f/findutils/findutils_4.2.22-1.dsc
findutils_4.2.22-1_i386.deb
  to pool/main/f/findutils/findutils_4.2.22-1_i386.deb
findutils_4.2.22.orig.tar.gz
  to pool/main/f/findutils/findutils_4.2.22.orig.tar.gz



A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.

Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed.  If you
have further comments please address them to 208307@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.

Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Andreas Metzler <ametzler@debian.org> (supplier of updated findutils package)

(This message was generated automatically at their request; if you
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Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2005 19:39:46 +0200
Source: findutils
Binary: findutils
Architecture: source i386
Version: 4.2.22-1
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: low
Maintainer: Andreas Metzler <ametzler@debian.org>
Changed-By: Andreas Metzler <ametzler@debian.org>
Description: 
 findutils  - utilities for finding files--find, xargs, and locate
Closes: 208307 301934 311384 312760 312761 313081
Changes: 
 findutils (4.2.22-1) unstable; urgency=low
 .
   * New upstream version
     - fixes infinite loop of "find -follow" on trees with symlinks to ./.
       (Closes: #313081)
     - better documentation for %k and %d printf directives. (Closes: #208307)
     - find filters out non-printable characters (which could mess up the
       terminal) when printing the output to a console. (Closes: #311384)
     - Typo fixes. (Closes: #301934, #312760, #312761) (Thanks, A Costa.)
Files: 
 84b082128b8f4b109efed4749d7d322e 662 base required findutils_4.2.22-1.dsc
 81ef043fbc9203f03225d0dc7f6cb2ec 972905 base required findutils_4.2.22.orig.tar.gz
 8612990949c3c1e82ea102cf856059ab 12261 base required findutils_4.2.22-1.diff.gz
 df01940ef18ccd6996366396b1b26b7b 304976 base required findutils_4.2.22-1_i386.deb

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