Hi Berny, It's all right there in the manual pages, you're completely right. Normally I don't overlook stuff that easily, must have been too early in the morning :)
Have a pleasant day as well, Mischa. On Mon, 2019-09-23 at 18:47 +0200, Bernhard Voelker wrote: > 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 >
