nouser and nogroup keywords not working

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#1 Sun, 2017-10-15 01:28

praving5

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Hi,
I want to find unowned and ungrouped files. On other Linux distributions, I use

find / -user nouser
find / -group nogroup

But, the above does not work in Alpine Linux? What are the alternate commands?

I also tried

find / -nouser
find / -nogroup

This does not work as well.

Please help.

#2 Wed, 2017-10-18 23:14

Head_on_a_Stick

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Have you installed the findutils package?

I think the stock Alpine system uses a symlink to busybox for `find` (and most other utilities) and the options for that are more limited than the GNU variants.