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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers How to move file from one directory to other of only particular user? Post 302888838 by Yoda on Monday 17th of February 2014 03:29:05 PM
Old 02-17-2014
I am not sure if I understood your requirement.

You can get the file owner by running a stat command and move that file to user specific dir:
Code:
owner=$( stat -c %U file.pdf )

mkdir -p "$owner"

mv file.pdf "${owner}/"

 

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SYNOPSIS

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