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Old 03-09-2018
Search for files owned by particular owner and group
I am searchingfor files owned by particular owner and group in a particular directory including its sub-directories. I use

Code:
find <dir> -user <user> -group <group> -exec ls -l {} \;

It does not work completely. In the sense is a subdirectory is owned by 'user' and group 'group' then all files under that directory are also displayed even though they are owned by different user/group.

Any help?
# 2  
Old 03-09-2018
Code:
find <dir> -user <user> -group <group> -exec ls -ld {} +

# 3  
Old 03-09-2018
I think I did not make it clear. ld will show me only directory/sub-directories. I want all directory, sub-directories and files under the given directory have specified user/group.
# 4  
Old 03-09-2018
if the (sub-) directory satisfies your conditions, your above command will exec ute an ls -l on it, which in turn does not discriminate against them. Does your find version provide the -ls action?
# 5  
Old 03-09-2018
Rudic,

Yes, find version provides ls version. If I give just find command, I get

Code:
/export/home> find . -user root -group other
./sparcs_1
./sparcs_2

Now under two directories sparcs_1 and sparcs_2 there are few files which are owned by root/other and few which are not. But my earlier command lists all the files under sparcs_1 and sparcs_2.
# 6  
Old 03-09-2018
Code:
find . -type f  -user root -group other  -ls

Will return only files meeting the selection criteria. Is that what you need? [-ls] is optional.
# 7  
Old 03-09-2018
No, this does not work because none of the files/sub-directories under current directory is owned by root/other. Some of the files under sub-dirctory are owned by root/other. Consider following

Code:
MY_SERVER:/export/home/sdesai/tools> ls -lrt
total 2
-rwxr-xr-x   1 sdesai   mis           94 Mar  2 08:53 dif
drwxr-xr-x   2 sdesai   mis           96 Mar  9 14:41 sparcs_1
drwxr-xr-x   2 sdesai   mis           96 Mar  9 14:41 sparcs_2
MY_SERVER:/export/home/sdesai/tools> cd sparcs_1
MY_SERVER:/export/home/sdesai/tools/sparcs_1> ls -l
 -rwxrwxrwx  1 oracle  other       1925 Feb 26 04:58 File1.txt
-rwxrwxrwx   1 roor    other       1900 Feb 27 04:58 File2.txt

I want only File2.txt as it is owned by root/other
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