Find by GID (13)

[Tonya Underwood]

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?

[Ivan Krastev]

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

[Pete Randall]

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

[Tonya Underwood]

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

Thanks,
Tonya

[James R. Ferguson]

Hi:

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

Regards!

...JRF...

[A. Clay Stephenson]

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

[A. Clay Stephenson · Accepted solution]

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

[Tonya Underwood]

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

[john korterman]

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.

[Tonya Underwood]

SEE ABOVE.