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You need to use a simple find command like<br />
/path/to/dir is the path of directory under which you want to do a recursive search<br />
In this command, I didn't want to remove files owned by root<br />
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find /path/to/dir -not -user root -type f -exec rm '{}' \;
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You need to use a simple find command like
/path/to/dir is the path of directory under which you want to do a recursive search
In this command, I didn't want to remove files owned by root

find /path/to/dir -not -user root -type f -exec rm '{}' \;

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Thanks farzanj<br />
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I added a few options, and works great!<br />
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-John 
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Thanks farzanj

I added a few options, and works great!

-John

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Hello,<br />
<br />
I'm new to Bash scripting, and need a scrip to run as a cron that will remove all files recursively<br />
in specific directories, but exclude any files owned by specific users. How can this be done? <br />
<br />
Thank you
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Hello,

I'm new to Bash scripting, and need a scrip to run as a cron that will remove all files recursively
in specific directories, but exclude any files owned by specific users. How can this be done? 

Thank you

Bash script to remove files in directory but exlude by owner

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