The normal find command is find . -name showled -print to find /usr/lib/methods/showled or find / ... to start at the top, but unfortunately, this will include /afs, so to exclude afs, use find / -name afs -prune -o ... the rest is for non-AFS files or even better, under Linux you probably want to exclude /proc too find / -name afs -prune -o -name proc -prune -o -group 101 -ls ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Also useful incantation is find / -nouser -o nogroup to find the orphaned files ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------------