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Anderson Green
Asked: 2013-03-08 19:02:23 +0800 CST

Find all files modified by a specific user

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On Ubuntu, is it possible to generate a list of all files in the /home folder that were modified by a specific user? I want to find a list of all of the files that I have created or modified since I installed Ubuntu 12.04.

I mainly want to do this so that I can find all the files that I have created or modified, and then move them to my other Ubuntu installation.

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  1. Best Answer

    use find

    find /home -user $USER -mtime -90

    The -mtime is the number of days, so -90 is the last 90 days. Adjust the number of says as needed.

    See also http://content.hccfl.edu/pollock/unix/findcmd.htm

    It may just be easier to copy all of home, cp -Ra home or use rsync

    https://help.ubuntu.com/community/rsync

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