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11-28-2011, 02:58 PM
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Registered: Sep 2011
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Find all files owned by a user and copy them to a temp folder
How do you find all of the files owned by a user then copy those files to a temp folder?
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11-28-2011, 03:35 PM
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Registered: Jan 2010
Location: Velveeta, USA
Distribution: Xen, Gentoo,Ubuntu,openSUSE,Debian,pfSense
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Code:
eg: find /beginsearch/path -user name -exec mv -f {} /tmp/dir \;
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11-28-2011, 03:54 PM
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Registered: Sep 2011
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I don't want to move the files just copy them. I'm using RHEL 6 and get a missing argument to -exec.
Never mind forgot the space after the destination folder.
Thank you
Last edited by mikezoch; 11-28-2011 at 03:55 PM.
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11-28-2011, 06:02 PM
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Registered: Jan 2010
Location: Velveeta, USA
Distribution: Xen, Gentoo,Ubuntu,openSUSE,Debian,pfSense
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obviously change mv to cp
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