Search Files Based On Owners and Groups in Linux
Search Files Based On Owners and Groups in Linux
In Unix-like and some other operating systems, find is a command-line utility that searches one or more directory trees of a file system, locates files based on some user-specified criteria and applies a user-specified action on each matched file.
To find all or single file called testdata.txt under / root directory of owner root.
# find / -user root -name testdata.txt
Find all Files Based on User
To find all files that belongs to user Satya under /home directory.
# find /home -user Satya
Find all Files Based on Group
To find all files that belongs to group TechDeveloper under /home directory.
# find /home -group TechDeveloper
Find Particular Files of User
To find all .txt files of user Satya under /home directory.
# find /home -user Satya -iname "*.txt"
Find Files by Modification Time in linux
Find Files Based on their Permissions in Linux
