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delete a specific user file

peterchu — Thu, 09 Jun 2005 04:05:22 GMT

If I want to delete all the files that belongs to a specify user ( eg. userA) , in the below case , i want to delete the file ed.log , could suggest what can I do ?thx

ll /tmp

-rw-rw-rw- 1 userB edp 1830 Jun 9 16:25 abc.log
-rw-rw-rw- 1 userA edp 1864 Jun 9 16:25 ed.log
-rw-rw-rw- 1 edp1 sys 2546 Jun 9 16:04 gou.log
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 27004 Jun 9 16:00 12203.1
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 14683 Jun 9 16:00 12203.2

Re: delete a specific user file

Paul_481 — Thu, 09 Jun 2005 04:22:04 GMT

Hi Peter,

use find.

#find -user -exec rm {} \;

where is the directory of the files and
is the owner of the files that you want to delete.

Regards,
Paul

Re: delete a specific user file

jpcast_real — Thu, 09 Jun 2005 04:22:15 GMT

Whith a simple scritp:

ll | grep -i mad | awk '{ print $NF }'

Gives you all the files which a user owns.

Dartanan:/tmp> ll | grep -i mad | awk '{ print $NF }' | while read line
> do
> rm $line
> done

With this simple scritp you can delete all of them

Re: delete a specific user file

Eknath — Thu, 09 Jun 2005 04:24:15 GMT

Hi,

try following command
#find / -user abc -exec rm {} \;

replace abc with the username. Also replace / with the absolute path if you want to delete only from certain directory..
/ will delete all files owned by abc on the system.

Cheers !!!

eknath

Re: delete a specific user file

Muthukumar_5 — Thu, 09 Jun 2005 04:30:57 GMT

You can all files owned by specic user with find -u option as,

find -u -type f -exec rm -f {} \;

To delete userA file under /tmp structure then,

find /tmp -u userA -type f -exec rm -f {} \;

or

find /tmp -u userA -type f | xargs rm -f

hth.

Re: delete a specific user file

Enrico P. — Thu, 09 Jun 2005 04:55:20 GMT

Hi,

ll |grep ^- | awk '{ if ( $3 == "username" ) {print $9} }'|xargs rm

for delete username' s ordinary file in the currently directory.

Enrico

Re: delete a specific user file

Mobeen_1 — Thu, 09 Jun 2005 06:20:26 GMT

Peter,
While i concur with the suggestions put forth in the previous posts, i would like to urge you to make doubly sure on the "User" and "Directory" while following the suggestions :)

regards
Mobeen