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Old 03-19-2019
I am trying to figure what I am doing wrong here.

Code:
find . '!' -user $USER -ls 
andy@7_~/Downloads$

Last edited by RudiC; 03-19-2019 at 01:03 PM..
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Old 03-19-2019
Quote:
Originally Posted by drew77
I am trying to figure what I am doing wrong here.
Code:
find . '!' -user $andy -ls
find: ‘-ls' is not the name of a known user

Has a value been assigned to variable andy?
Last edited by RudiC; 03-19-2019 at 01:06 PM..
# 3  
Old 03-19-2019
I made an edit to my post.
# 4  
Old 03-19-2019
1) DON'T - seriously - edit a post when others have answered referencing it, making their post look silly!
2) Does your problem persist (not for me!)? Or has a new one surfaced?
# 5  
Old 03-19-2019
Alright -- now that you've edited it, what is the value of $USER when you run it? It's acting like its blank.
# 6  
Old 03-19-2019
@Corona688: Sorry I disagree. It's acting as if every single file in the current working directory and below belonged to $USER. Were $USER empty, we'd have the error from the original post.
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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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