1 Feb
2008
1 Feb
'08
2 p.m.
On 01 Feb 13:56, Mark Rogers wrote:
I'm trying to delete a load of files owned by previously existing users. In other words I then need to "su [username] -c 'rm -r [dirname]' where [username] matches the owner of the files. (I don't have root access to the server but do have the ability to su to any of the users I need to delete files for.)
If I use "ls -l" I see the user names truncated to 8 chars, so I'm using "ls -ln" to see the numeric user ID of the files instead. However su doesn't work with numeric UID values.
So, get the username...
getent passwd <uid>
Thanks,
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Brett Parker