Delete all files belonging to a certain group / owner ?

[OdinsDream]

I've got a directory with many, many files. Is there an easy way to delete only the files that belong to a certain group, or to only a certain user?

[styrke]

Yes, use find.

find . -type f -group wheel -exec rm \{\} \;

should remove all files in the current directory and all its subdirectories owned by group "wheel". See "man find" for more info.

Note: Use at your own risk! A good idea might be to replace rm with something harmless first, like echo, to see that it works the way you intended.

[OdinsDream]

Great solution! I'll look more into "find", as it looks like this is a great shell-scripting solution for things like this.

Worked like a charm.

[rac]

A good companion to find is xargs.
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