topic Re: Find by GID (13) in Operating System - HP-UX

Find by GID (13)

Tonya Underwood — Thu, 03 May 2007 12:45:59 GMT

I had two dba entries in my group file causing issues. I need to find all files on my server owned by GID 13 (I've removed the dup entry) and chgrp to dba (the correct GID 130).

drwxrwxrwx 2 autosys sys 8192 Apr 28 03:14 Autolog
drwxr-xr-x 2 psa 13 96 Nov 21 09:24 DBA
drwxr-xr-x 2 psa sys 96 Nov 21 09:24 EBR
drwxrwxr-x 2 psa 13 96 Nov 21 09:24 SAP
drwxr-xr-x 2 root sys 96 Nov 21 09:24 UX

I've tried find / -group 13 -xdev -exec ll {} \; just to see if my syntax is correct but it isn't even close.

Can show how to pick out that GID 13 which no longer exists in group file?

Re: Find by GID (13)

Ivan Krastev — Thu, 03 May 2007 12:51:27 GMT

Create temporary group (dba1) with GID 13.
Find all files:

find / -group dba1 -xdev -exec ll{} \;

After that change group ownership to 130 and delete group dba1.

regards,
ivan

Re: Find by GID (13)

Pete Randall — Thu, 03 May 2007 12:52:47 GMT

Tonya,

I'm just guessing because the man page confuses me. It says "True if the file belongs to the group gname. If gname is numeric and does not appear in the /etc/group file, it is taken as a group ID."

Unable to interpret that particular phrasing, I would suggest creating an entry for GID 13 that names some fictitious group and then searching on the group name.

Pete

Re: Find by GID (13)

Tonya Underwood — Thu, 03 May 2007 12:54:17 GMT

Hmmm... I see... creating a temp entry works... but I think that the man page is wrong. It is misleading at best.

Thanks,
Tonya

Re: Find by GID (13)

James R. Ferguson — Thu, 03 May 2007 12:57:29 GMT

Hi:

# find /path -xdev -group 13 -exec chgrp dba {} \+

Regards!

...JRF...

Re: Find by GID (13)

A. Clay Stephenson — Thu, 03 May 2007 12:57:51 GMT

There is nothing wrong with your find command although it is possible that you are not executing the "ll" that you think you are.

Do a "type ll" to make sure that it is the command you want and not an alias or use ls -l

find / -group 13 -xdev -exec ls -l {}\;

should do just what you want and the lack of a corresponding group entry shouldn't matter.

Of course, if all you want to do to list those files then

find / -group 13 -xdev > /tmp/mylist

Re: Find by GID (13)

A. Clay Stephenson — Thu, 03 May 2007 12:59:47 GMT

You should also note that a very useful find option is -nogroup.

Re: Find by GID (13)

Tonya Underwood — Thu, 03 May 2007 13:11:37 GMT

nice... I may actually try a mess up with that. THANKS!

Re: Find by GID (13)

john korterman — Thu, 03 May 2007 13:20:49 GMT

Hi Tonya,

I would suggest skipping the -xdev option. Your find command starts in the / directory and the -xdev option prevents you from crossing mount points, i.e. you will never enter other file systems than root - and the other filesystems are probably where the interesting files are located.

regards,
John K.

Re: Find by GID (13)

Tonya Underwood — Thu, 03 May 2007 13:21:46 GMT

SEE ABOVE.