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