从特定用户拥有的特定目录中删除 Linux 中的文件的命令是什么？

Question

Let's say we have a directory path /home/username . How can we delete all the files only from this path which are owned/created by the user dev-user ? When I am trying

find . -user c70945a -exec rm /home/dev-user/* {} \;

but it's giving an error and it's removing files from other directories as well.

Answer 1

find /home/username -maxdepth 1 -type f -user "dev-user" -delete

Use the user flag to specify files owner by a specific user and use -delete to remove the files.

Set maxdepth 1 to search for files within /home/username only and not child directories.

Answer 2

Use this find command:

find /home/dev-user -user 'dev-user' -type f -exec rm {} +

+ at the end of -exec means that {} is expanded to the list of all matching files.