Using the find command with wildcard

[mrbernsca]

Hey Guys,

Need some help ..

find / -user username -print shows me all files in the system that are owned by a specific user ....

Does anyone know how to each for a string in the user name ...

i.e. user ids on the box are bill, bob, bart and I will search for all files owned by b* (covers all the names above)????

Thx.

 

[p5wizard]

Well, find uses the numeric user ids to search for, as that is also what is stored in the files' inodes. So I don't think [tt]find / -user 'b*' -print[/tt] will work...

What does work is this:
[tt]find / \( -user bill -o -user bob -o -user bart \) -print[/tt]

And actually you don't need to specify the [tt]-print[/tt] so like this you don't even need the brackets:
[tt]find / -user bill -o -user bob -o -user bart -print[/tt]



HTH,

p5wizard