Simple 'find' command question

[Darrell Tyler_1]

Hello,
Is there a way of issuing the 'find' command to poll for â file ownerâ ? I have tried the below command with no luck

# find /home -user *ftp*
find: missing conjun

[RAC_1]

I think it has to be
find /home -user ftp

Anil

[Mark Grant]

You can't use the '*' around the user name.

It would need to be "find /home -user ftp".

[TC ITEMS Unix Admin · Accepted solution]

you should not have the * around the username. The shell will interpret the * as a wildcard before executing the find command. so what you want is:

find /home -user ftp -type f -exec ls -l {} \;

[Anupam Anshu_1]

With -user option of commands you can give only +/- i.e.

find /home -user +101
find /home -user -101
find /home -user 101

find doesn't allow regular expressions for option to -user.
Anshu

[Geoff Wild]

Yes - can not have *'s

-user uname True if the file belongs to the user uname.
If uname is numeric and does not appear as a
login name in the /etc/passwd file, it is
taken as a user ID. The uname operand can be
preceded by a + or - to modify the comparison
of the primaries. If the argument n
represents a decimal integer; +n means more
than n, -n means less than n, and n means
exactly n.



find /home -user ftp


Find only user with uis 21100
or find /home -user 21100

Find all users greater then uid 21099
or find /home -user +21099

Rgds...Geoff

[Robert-Jan Goossens]

Anshu,

That is not right,

# cd /home
# find . -user gorj -type f -exec ll {} \;
-rwxr-xr-x 1 gorj users 65 Apr 20 13:03 .history
-rwxr-x--- 1 gorj users 341 Jun 13 2000 .login
-rw------- 1 gorj users 19124 Mar 25 10:51 .lsof
-rwxr-x--- 1 gorj users 1768 May 17 09:46 .profile

regards,
Robert-Jan

[Mel Burslan]

if what you are doing is to find files owned by users who has the word ftp as a part of their username, you can do this

for username in `cat /etc/passwd | cut -d: -f1 | grep ftp`
do
find /home -user $username
done

Hope this helps

[Jose Mosquera]

Hi,

Try the following lines:

USERS=`cat /etc/passwd|awk -F":" '{ print $1 }'|grep ftp`
for USER in $USERS
do
find /home -user $USER
done


If you need more information about found files replace previously "find" sintax by this:
find /home -user $USER -exec ll {} \;

BR.

[Darrell Tyler_1]

Hello again,
I want to thank you all for the information and perspective you have afforded me. I think of all, Mel Burslan is the closest to what Iâ m looking for - files that have ftp as a part of their owner

[iminus]

Try find /home -user ""

you can specify wild card * for searching in the quotes.

[Dani Seely]

Hey Darrell,
Based on your example you used in your question, Iminus was closest to your answer.

If you are looking for any user with ftp in the name (i.e. tftpuser) you would need to enclose the ftp in quotes with an asterisk before and after ...
# find /home -user "*ftp*"

If you are looking for a user with ftp in the name then you don't need quotes, you would use:
# find /home -user *ftp

Same for the reverse ... ftp, you would use:
# find /home -user ftp*

Your example shows two asterisks, so you would use the first example I show above.

Good luck!

[Darrell Tyler_1]

Thank you once again!