Hi,

How do I copy all of the files that are owned by the user ?
i.e copy all of the files in /tmp that are owned by the user who
performs the command/

Thanks,
Tom Gur

Tom Gur wrote:

> Hi,
>
> How do I copy all of the files that are owned by the user ?
> i.e copy all of the files in /tmp that are owned by the user who
> performs the command/

Assuming the user is the one returned by "whoami", then

u=`whoami`
find /tmp -user "$u" -exec cp '{}' /dest/dir \;

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On Mar 30, 11:22 am, Tom Gur <gur.... [at] gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> How do I copy all of the files that are owned by the user ?
> i.e copy all of the files in /tmp that are owned by the user who
> performs the command/
>
> Thanks,
> Tom Gur

Hello ,
Also you can do the following

find / -name $(username) |xrags -i cp -r {} $(destination)

On Mar 30, 2:12 pm, "medo... [at] gmail.com" <medo... [at] gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mar 30, 11:22 am, Tom Gur <gur.... [at] gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Hi,
>
> > How do I copy all of the files that are owned by the user ?
> > i.e copy all of the files in /tmp that are owned by the user who
> > performs the command/
>
> > Thanks,
> > Tom Gur
>
> Hello ,
> Also you can do the following
>
> find / -name $(username) |xrags -i cp -r {} $(destination)

Thanks !

On 2008-03-30, medomoe [at] gmail.com <medomoe [at] gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> On Mar 30, 11:22 am, Tom Gur <gur.... [at] gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> How do I copy all of the files that are owned by the user ?
>> i.e copy all of the files in /tmp that are owned by the user who
>> performs the command/
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Tom Gur
>
> Hello ,
> Also you can do the following
>
> find / -name $(username) |xrags -i cp -r {} $(destination)

That would only return files who have the same name as the user, wouldn'it?
He wants the files owned by the user.

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* pk <pk [at] pk.invalid> writes:

> Tom Gur wrote:
>> How do I copy all of the files that are owned by the user ?
>> i.e copy all of the files in /tmp that are owned by the user who
>> performs the command/

> Assuming the user is the one returned by "whoami", then

> u=3D`whoami`
> find /tmp -user "$u" -exec cp '{}' /dest/dir \;

Is there any point/advantage to using a variable there? I would have
simply...

find /tmp -user $(whoami) -type f -exec cp {} /dest \;

The `-type f' so you don't run into trouble if there are directories or
other special files.

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Steve Youngs wrote:

> Is there any point/advantage to using a variable there? I would have
> simply...
>
> find /tmp -user $(whoami) -type f -exec cp {} /dest \;
>
> The `-type f' so you don't run into trouble if there are directories or
> other special files.

Thanks, that's probably better.

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I'm aware of that), but I may miss something. Corrections are welcome.