Find UNIX files with no valid owner
Contributed by qmchenry 
September 4, 2003 
Tagged: UNIX
Using the find command, locate files that are owned by a uid that no longer exists.
find / -nouser -print
Contributed by qmchenry
September 4, 2003 Tagged: UNIX
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