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I recently needed to track down every file owned by a user on a Linux machine. Fortunately the find command already has a parameter to limit matches to a user or group.

This works on Linux, BSD, and OSX.

• Find all files in the root directory owned by the www-data user:
  

  find / -user www-data
  

• Find all .php files in the www-data group in the /usr/local/www directory:
  

  find /usr/local/www -group www-data -name "*.php" 
  

Resources¶

• http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/how-do-i-find-all-the-files-owned-by-a-particular-user-or-group/