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Operating Systems Linux Ubuntu Find: ‘-ls’ is not the name of a known user Post 303032512 by drew77 on Tuesday 19th of March 2019 12:58:13 PM
Old 03-19-2019
I edited because I made a mistake. I am human.

You did not look silly.

--- Post updated at 11:58 AM ---

Quote:
Originally Posted by Corona688
Alright -- now that you've edited it, what is the value of $USER when you run it? It's acting like its blank.
andy@7_~$ find . '!' -user $andy -ls
find: ‘-ls' is not the name of a known user

I did

sudo chown -R andy /home/andy/

because some files in home were not owned by me.

Here is what it PREVIOUSLY looked like.

Dropbox - ls.txt
Last edited by RudiC; 03-19-2019 at 02:02 PM.. Reason: Added CODE tags.
 

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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN

ubuntu-upload-permission

ubuntu-upload-permission(1)				      General Commands Manual				       ubuntu-upload-permission(1)

NAME

       ubuntu-upload-permission - Query upload rights and (optionally) list the people and teams with upload rights for a package

SYNOPSIS

       ubuntu-upload-permission [options] package

DESCRIPTION

       ubuntu-upload-permission checks if the user has upload permissions for package.	If the --list-uploaders option is provided, all the people
       and teams that do have upload rights for package will be listed.

OPTIONS

       -r RELEASE, --release=RELEASE
	      Query permissions in RELEASE.  Default: current development release.

       -a, --list-uploaders
	      List all the people and teams who have upload rights for package.

       -t, --list-team-members
	      List all the members of every team with rights. (Implies --list-uploaders)

       -h, --help
	      Display a help message and exit

EXIT STATUS

       0      You have the necessary upload rights.

       1      You don't have the necessary upload rights.

       2      There was an error.

AUTHORS

       ubuntu-upload-permission and this manpage were written by Stefano Rivera <stefanor@ubuntu.com>.

       Both are released under the terms of the ISC License.

ubuntu-dev-tools						   November 2011				       ubuntu-upload-permission(1)
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