On 2019-09-23 17:48, Mischa Baars wrote:
> Hi,
> I was trying to use 'find' to look for all files that belong to
> 'owner', to clean up any files still on the filesystem after removing
> user 'owner'.
> As far as I know, this is impossible with 'find'. Am I right? And if
> so, is there any other way to do this?
> Best regards,
> Mischa Baars.
Sure, 'man find' says:
-uid n File's numeric user ID is n.
-user uname
File is owned by user uname (numeric user ID allowed).
So there's a way to find files owned by the given user specified
either by user name or by user ID; the latter works also in the
case the user name was already deleted.
See also:
https://www.gnu.org/software/findutils/manual/html_node/find_html/Owner.html
Have a nice day,
Berny
