On Sat, Jul 24, 2010 at 1:18 AM, Rony <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello, > > I want to use the find command inside a directory which has user1, > user2, user3 and user4 in the group to either look for files owned by > user1 or user2 or user3 > > or > > find files not owned by user4. > > The -user option allows me only one name. I tried spaces, comas between > user_names but the syntax is returned invalid. I can't find the > not_owned option either. The -nouser option is for users not in the > /etc/passwd file which is not my case. Checked out google too but cannot > find any possibility for multi-user options in the same line. Even tried > -user user1 -user user2 -user user3 together but not working. If I can > write one 'find' line for all the users, I don't have to repeat it per > user. > > Any tips or tricks? >
$ find /path/of/dir -user user1 -o -user user2 -o -user user3 should work just fine. HTH. > > -- > Regards, > > Rony. > > GNU/Linux ! > No Viruses > No Spyware > Only Freedom. > > -- > http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers > -- Thanks, Sagar Belure Security Analyst Secfence Technologies www.secfence.com -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
