Getting all files that are owned by someone.

[Guest_imported]

I need to find all files with the name of the person who owns the file.

ls -l gives me:

-rw-r--r-- 1 smith mygroup 58 Dec 4 2001 zy


I want to get all files that are owned by smith:

find . "smith" -exec ls -l {} \;

This is not working. Any suggestions??

 

[lancer73]

find . -user smith -exec ls -ld {} \;

 

[KenCunningham]

I think lancer73 probably means:

find . -user smith -exec ls -la {} \;

as ld will give only directories, la will give all files including 'hidden' ones (eg .profile). Cheers.

 

[lancer73]

actually, -a would be a good switch to put in to list . files. however, -d will not list only directories. it will list files as well, and only directory paths. without the -d option you will list the contents of all files in that directory (which may not be owned by that user), and you'll get duplicate listings if files owned by smith are also in directories owned by smith (one listing for the file found, one when the directory contents are displayed). now, if you don't want to list directories, you can use this as an alternative:

find . -user smith -type f -exec ls -la {} \;

 

[jad]

find . -type d -user smith -ls

will show all directories owned by smith

find . -type f -user smith -ls

will only show files.

 

[telcomwork]

Are yyou using an xterm window to run these commands. Sorry if it's a stupid question. I'm tryin to learn our new system.