From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Sep 23 16: 7: 8 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from pogo.caustic.org (caustic.org [64.163.147.186]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E39B637B431 for ; Sun, 23 Sep 2001 16:07:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (jan@localhost) by pogo.caustic.org (8.11.0/ignatz) with ESMTP id f8NN70K26094; Sun, 23 Sep 2001 16:07:00 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sun, 23 Sep 2001 16:07:00 -0700 (PDT) From: "f.johan.beisser" To: Nathan Mace Cc: freebsd-questions Subject: Re: 'find' question In-Reply-To: <20010923190226.3d62ec9c.mace_nathan@uchaswv.edu> Message-ID: X-Ignore: This statement isn't supposed to be read by you MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, 23 Sep 2001, Nathan Mace wrote: > is there a way to use find to print out a list of files and > directories that are writable by a certain user? for example if my > user name was "nathan" and i wanted a list of every directory that i > had rights to right to how would i run that command? i read the find > man page, and i think it's possible to do this, i just don't have any > idea how. have you tried the various examples? find / -name -print that would print out anything by the one user. > on a side note, if this is possible, can i use "locate" instead of > find? not in this way. please take a look at the locate(1) man page. -- jan -------/ f. johan beisser /--------------------------------------+ http://caustic.org/~jan jan@caustic.org "if my thought-dreams could be seen.. "they'd probably put my head in a gillotine" -- Bob Dylan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message