How to limit du output to a specific user?

Question

I need to help a specific user, say alice, free up some disk space; but not all the user's files are in his home directory; many are in directories shared with other users. I'd like to have something like the output of

du -sh *

but limited to the files that belong to that user only. I.e., something like,

du -sh --ignore-all-users-except=alice *

So, for example, if in the current directory there are three directories, a, b and c, I'd like to see output such as the following:

1.3G   a
416K   b
80K    c

meaning that alice is using 1.3G inside a, 416K inside b, and so on.

Is there any utility that can give me such information, or do I need a script?

score 4 · Answer 1 · answered Jul 10 '13 at 09:14

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find / -user alice -print0 | du -ch --files0-from=-

answered Jul 10 '13 at 09:14

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score 0 · Answer 2 · edited Apr 13 '17 at 12:14

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I think this will do.

find . -user alice -type f -exec du -h {} +

Update: You might want to check the answers here

edited Apr 13 '17 at 12:14

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answered Jul 10 '13 at 09:07

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How to limit du output to a specific user?

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