Find the files of a particular user or group

Question

How can I search the files based on the owner or group in command line?

Right now I have tried ls -lR, that gives all the details of files in sub directories also, and I needed to manually search the files owned by root.

Answer 1

You can use the find command:

find /path/to/directory -user root

For example:

$ find /var -user gdm
/var/lib/gdm
/var/lib/gdm/.config
/var/lib/gdm/.config/gnome-session
/var/lib/gdm/.config/gnome-session/saved-session
/var/lib/gdm/.config/ibus
/var/lib/gdm/.config/ibus/bus
/var/lib/gdm/.config/dconf
/var/lib/gdm/.config/dconf/user
...