[SOLVED] listing files in UNIX owned by a particular user

Issue

How do I list the files owned by a particular user in UNIX ?.

If I use ls - l command in a shared directory ,it lists all the files with the details .This shared directory contains many files created by many users in a group and I am in a situation where I want to see the files created only by a particular user. Is there any listing command to give username as the input. Refer below example,

command : ls - l

drwxr-xr-x   2 user_1     main 4.0K    Feb 12 16:43 proj_1
drwxrws---   6 user_2     main  20M    Feb 18 11:07 proj_2
drwxr-xr-x   3 user_1     main 1.3M    Feb 18 00:18 proj_3
drwxrwsr-x   2 user_2     main  8.0K   Dec 27 01:23 proj_4
drwxrwsr-x   2 user_3     main  8.1K   Dec 27 01:23 proj_5

I am looking for a command to display only the files created by the user_2 with my expected output as below ,

   drwxrws---   6 user_2     main  20M    Feb 18 11:07 proj_2
   drwxrwsr-x   2 user_2     main  8.0K   Dec 27 01:23 proj_4

Kindly let me know if there is a way .

Solution

It should be possible to use awk togheter with ls -l

ls -l | awk '$3=="user_2" { print $0 }'

this will print all lines where third field (user) matches "user_2"

Answered By - Niklas Björnestål