On 10/26/2010 05:23 PM, Matt wrote:

Is there a way to tell rm -f to only remove a file if its owned by say mail?

Not sure you can directly use rm for that, but you could find the uid of the user in /etc/passwd, then run find and -exec on it with rm.

To view them:

cat /etc/passwd | grep "USER"

find /path -uid 123 -exec ls -la {} ;

To delete them, then use -exec rm -rf {} ;

Be CAREFUL though!

Regards, Max

On Tue, 26 Oct 2010, Matt wrote:

Is there a way to tell rm -f to only remove a file if its owned by say mail?

find . -user "$USERMATCH"-name "$FILENAME" \ -a -exec rm -f {} ;

or such ...

-- Russ herrold