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Quick & Easy Delete by Owner

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Klick

Klick

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Dec 12, 2001
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Is there a quick and easy way to "rm" all files that belong to user "kevin"?
 
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My apologies, I didn't look hard enough for this answer before I posted...

$ find ./ -user kevin -ok rm {} \;
 
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