[Tennberg]

Hi everyone,

Is there a command in Unix that will show what user owns what files and directories on an entire system? Is there also a way to take the output of this and plug it into another command that lists them by files and by directories?

I realize that the output may be long, but I'm willing to take that risk :-)

Thanks!

[Tennberg]

One other thing: How would I export the output of that series of commands into a text files? blah blah balh > ownership.txt?

[[APi]TheMan]

Every... file? Heh, that might be a bit more involved than you're willing to take this... that's... lots of files.

My genius scripting came up with this:

ls -l | awk '{print $3}' > ownership.txt


But that only gets one directory... and then you've stripped your output of the filenames, so there is pretty much no point... The text file would just have a bunch of user names in it heheheh

[VEGAN]

Originally posted by [APi]TheMan:
Every... file? Heh, that might be a bit more involved than you're willing to take this... that's... lots of files. :)

My genius scripting came up with this:

ls -l | awk '{print $3}' > ownership.txt


But that only gets one directory... and then you've stripped your output of the filenames, so there is pretty much no point... The text file would just have a bunch of user names in it :) heheheh

ls -l ./*

This will list files in current directory and in all its subdirectories.

[Arkham_c]

Try this:

Code:

cd / && sudo ls -lR > ~/AllFiles.txt

The 'R' flag makes it recursive -- and you need the sudo because some directories are not available to anyone but the root user.

[Detrius]

Originally posted by Arkham_c:
Try this:

Code:

cd / && sudo ls -lR > ~/AllFiles.txt

The 'R' flag makes it recursive -- and you need the sudo because some directories are not available to anyone but the root user.

tree -u -g /


I don't know if it comes preinstalled on OS X, but fink has it.

[pimephalis]

Originally posted by Arkham_c:
Try this:

Code:

cd / && sudo ls -lR > ~/AllFiles.txt

The 'R' flag makes it recursive -- and you need the sudo because some directories are not available to anyone but the root user.

Exactly. But you might want to add the 'a' flag to ls in order to get the 'hidden' files. So it would be:

Code:
 
sudo ls -laR / >~/AllFiles.txt

Alternatively, if he's interested only in a single user or a single file type, he could pipe it through 'grep' in order to narrow that list; it's going to be huge! On my system, there are 395911 files.

[Wardy]

Originally posted by Detrius:
tree -u -g /


I don't know if it comes preinstalled on OS X, but fink has it.

Not on mine....


I think this would work for you as instead. I can't get it quite right at the moment but maybe you can tinker with it

Code:
% sudo find -X / | xargs ls -ld | sort -k3 -k9 > filelist.txt

It will take a while and produce copious amounts of output!