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Jerico91 10-13-2013 07:04 AM
How to find files owned by a user
 
Hi Guys,

Is there any command to find all the files owned by a
particular user..

druuna 10-13-2013 07:14 AM
You can use the find command to do just that:
Code:
find / -user <username>
Also have a look at this: A complete tutorial on find

Robhogg 10-13-2013 07:15 AM
This will find files owned by user arnold on the system (you may need to run with root permissions to find all of them).

find / -user arnold 2>/dev/null

It's worth checking out find's man page - it's quite powerful.

Jerico91 10-14-2013 09:21 AM
how do i copy all those files to a directory?

TB0ne 10-14-2013 09:30 AM
Quote:
Originally Posted by Jerico91 (Post 5045439)
how do i copy all those files to a directory?
Chain the commands together, or use the backticks (simpler)
Code:
cp `find / -user <username>` /some/destination


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