Ask Ubuntu General Room

Zanna

07:00

morning || afternoon || evening all

Anwar

hmm. i saw.

you weren't in the voters list

afternoon ...

@edwinksl I got another ubuntumaniac.com/2016/06/… :)

edwinksl

@Zanna the very first revision is unclear

Serg

Welp, now I can't register for anything - the system tells me see department

Anwar

hi Serg!

Serg

Hi, Anwar o/

Zanna

07:03

@edwinksl I can understand why it was voted unclear :)

Serg

07:13

TIL, Linus uses emacs

My First Line of Code: Linus Torvalds

►

Nathan Osman

Blech.

Serg

Bleach ?

Anwar

A request has already been submitted to make it compile <5.6 quickgit.kde.org/…

edwinksl

07:51

@Anwar it is not a PPA though, just a bug tracker

Anwar

where are it's packages?

edwinksl

no idea

Anwar

I should leave the idea i think

Arronical

08:35

Ahoy!

Zanna

09:01

Ahoy there :)

Anwar

@Arronical hi

Ubuntu Questions on U&L

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Q: How to run command everytime when the server is alive

I'm using Ubuntu 16.04 Server. I want to run specific command everytime when the server starts. I mean that this command should be executed when the server runs (continual work). This command is connected to PHP framework and starts web application. Normally I can run this command going to the...

Arronical

o/

jokerdino

09:32

@Zanna whew, thanks for that. Gives me something to fall back on.

Journeyman Geek

looks up to see what was going on

Yes, one does not mess with the short arms of the law.

jokerdino

@Zanna but this makes me puzzled.

Journeyman Geek

@jokerdino Some folk seem to think that shiny mod ~~badge~~ counts for nothing. Its a pretty big hat tho ;p

jokerdino

@JourneymanGeek I was happy there was no drama here but people are people.

@JourneymanGeek yeah, being friendly gives people the wrong impression.

Journeyman Geek

@jokerdino it was handled quickly, which is good

Yeah, I had to handle something similar on RA

jokerdino

09:39

It's not really fun to parent people.

Journeyman Geek

Who died and made me a grown up and all that? ;p

jokerdino

lolzer

@JourneymanGeek I have seen it all happen on RA and that might be a reason why I jumped a bit too soon.

Journeyman Geek

@jokerdino I actually consider that the optimum time to handle it

there's no too soon

jokerdino

yeah, but it's not obvious what was prevented if it never happened.

Journeyman Geek

I consider that a good thing

Its got nothing to do with our core topics, it does not involve your core chat userbase in a bad way....

Well @Zanna is a 'core' chat user in my eyes, but who's the other guy? ;p

Ubuntu Questions on U&L

09:56

0

Q: SPDIF choppy at higher datarates after reinstall

I've a machine on which I've recently installed Mythbuntu, replacing an old and no longer supported Fedora distro on which the machine was previously running a MythTV frontend. No hardware has been changed during the update, yet video files that previously would play audio happily across SPDIF to...

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Zanna

10:13

@jokerdino I mean, it is the principle, you don't have to read minds to do the right thing. If I'm being unclear, nothing new there :S

Thanks again & please let me know how I can help with anything...

@Zacharee1 got a helpful answer to the gimpshop question opensource.stackexchange.com/questions/4399/…

Ubuntu Questions on U&L

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Q: linking gnui to usr/bin/id error

i am trying to make a file but i am getting following error : Setting up compilation... Building executable:> cs251_base [ERRORS] /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lglui collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status can anyone fix this issue ?

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jokerdino

@Zanna ah it sounded like you were cool with how things were unfolding.

Zanna

10:28

@jokerdino what I wanted to say was, it's not only me who's protected by you explaining what isn't appropriate, everyone benefits from that and others know they can expect to feel safe too

jokerdino

10:42

@Zanna This is a lot more clear and helpful. And thanks for the vote of confidence.

Zanna

Always :)

user136984

11:35

@KazWolfe And what makes you think I use Steam?

Zacharee1

12:13

@Zanna noice

My rep is an OfficeJet

I think this is OT askubuntu.com/questions/819120/…

Zanna

OfficeJet Hehe

Zacharee1

:p

Arronical

12:29

askubuntu.com/questions/819111/… - Non repro?

Zacharee1

@Arronical oui

grooveplex

Hi people

Zacharee1

AH

grooveplex

@Zanna I don't feel good about this comment, but I still think I'm right pointing this out askubuntu.com/questions/805704/…

Zacharee1

@grooveplex 50 not 15

grooveplex

12:35

@Zacharee1 thx fixed

Zacharee1

What does running an app have to do with setting up Thunderbolt Ethernet?

I'm confused

grooveplex

mod/high rep (im)mortals, can you rollback this revision to my edit? askubuntu.com/posts/819116/revisions

Zacharee1

this person hid their private IPs askubuntu.com/questions/819131/…

grooveplex

nvm I can do that too

Zacharee1

@grooveplex I made an edit

grooveplex

12:42

I did the same before you, :/

This is going to be a mess I swear

Zacharee1

heuheuheuhue

We need to close it anyway

it's way too broad

grooveplex

Wow a what a title 'How to resolve this.'

Zacharee1

@grooveplex I had to reject the edit :/

because you removed the lists

grooveplex

@Zacharee1 what why? no i didn't

the system probably made it seem like i did

Zacharee1

You removed the formatting

grooveplex

12:45

whatever >:(

Zacharee1

Lists needs a space then a number

grooveplex

I swear I didn't

Zacharee1

Well you probably made the edit before I added them in

But go edit it again

with the other changes, leaving the lists

I'll approve

grooveplex

What no

Can I see the review?

Zacharee1

OT askubuntu.com/questions/819132/how-to-resolve-this-error

@grooveplex I think

grooveplex

12:46

where?

@Zacharee1

and I already flagged 0:)

Zacharee1

hang on

askubuntu.com/review/suggested-edits/611209

grooveplex

I can still clearly see the list

What's wrong with it? @Zacharee1

Zacharee1

yes, but notice that it isn't indented anymore. The list formatting is gone. There's also a random newline in the codeblock

grooveplex

I don't agree with you, but alas

this is getting messy

Now someone approved my edit or sth

But it gets weirder: a 103 rep user just approved my edit askubuntu.com/review/suggested-edits/611211

AFAIK, you need 2000 rep for that?

Zacharee1

@grooveplex it's the OP

grooveplex

12:54

@Zacharee1 how does this site even work lol

jk

Zacharee1

OP can approve dupes and edits to their own posts :p

grooveplex

@Zacharee1 that's dangerous

I don't think it should be like that

Zanna

@grooveplex why the ping? I was worried it was about a post of mine that had something wrong with it

@grooveplex I think it's good,edit helps clarify what OP meant. If there's a problem, someone can re-edit

And dupe approval v important, saves pressure on the old CV queue

grooveplex

@Zanna sowwee :(

I just thought you have a lot of rep and you always know the right thing to do

(Seriously, about the rep. It's absolutely unprecedented. You're a Stack Exchange legend.)

Zanna

@grooveplex no need to be sorry! Haha thanks for the flattery & feel free to ping if you like, it's not a problem, just wondering if I missed something :)

Nawww blush I'm just lucky & addicted

Journeyman Geek

13:01

lol

Zacharee1

lol wat

Journeyman Geek

Now I'm wondering if @Zanna's rep has the hockey stick spike

jokerdino

watch it get locked on 1

Zacharee1

@jokerdino o_O

Zanna

Lol ^_^

Journeyman Geek

13:03

yup, july 9th ;p

jokerdino

@JourneymanGeek must have been raining outside

Zanna

Hahaha I was marking that exam, trapped at my computer

Work-avoidance

Serg

13:19

@grooveplex because the folks who ask mint and kali questions know that those distros are based on Ubuntu， so they go, well, there's no Stackoverflow site for mint or kali , so i will as on Ubuntu, they're the same anyway

jokerdino

@Zanna Why does that sound familiar?

Zacharee1

@Serg Apparently, Kali is only Debian

@Serg do you know if there's a way to query a specific xinput property?

Zanna

@jokerdino strange I thought it was just me hahaha

jokerdino

There is a wiki article on "Work aversion".

Zacharee1

@jokerdino are you supposed to be working?

jokerdino

13:24

I am supposed to be doing my work - just not office work.

school work, home work, prep for exam, etc.

Zacharee1

... askubuntu.com/questions/819150/…

@jokerdino same thing

gr

What's the point of writing answers if I don't even get downvotes?

Zanna

Eh?

Zacharee1

I just wrote two answers. Not even a comment :p

Serg

@Zacharee1 i don't think so. I'd use grep xinput -list-props 12, where 12 is dev id. then grep what ever line you need

Zacharee1

13:39

ohh

So if I wanted to get the Device Enabled 1/0 line?

Serg

grep "Device Enabled", or use awk '/Device Enabled/{print $3}'

Zacharee1

so xinput list-props | grep "Device Enabled"

Serg

yup

Zacharee1

But I'd need to do something like if xinput list-props | grep "Device Enabled 1" == true

and "Device Enabled 0" == true

Serg

@Zacharee1 use awk then, i edited.

Zacharee1

13:42

What does it do?

Serg

prints 3rd column. Device is first Enabled is second. value is thirs

prints 3rd column. Device is first Enabled is second. value is third

Zacharee1

ahh

Serg

store that to variable in case you need to do something else with that value

Zacharee1

needs to be $4 actually

there's some number after Device Enabled

@Serg Yeah

Serg

I'd write whole thing but im on mobile, not the most convenient setup

Zacharee1

13:45

I wanna write a script for this askubuntu.com/questions/819148/… so that it can be run and enable the device if disabled and vice versa

this'll be fun

I can learn bash

@Serg do I need to define what a variable is, or can I just say OUTPUT=xinput list-props 5 | awk '/Device Enabled/{print $4}'

or would Python be better for this?

@Serg is this right?

#!/bin/bash

DEVICE=5

OUTPUT=xinput list-props DEVICE | awk '/Device Enabled/{print $4}'

if [ OUTPUT == 1 ]
  then
    xinput set-prop DEVICE "Device Enabled" 0
elif [ OUTPUT == 0 ]
  then
    xinput set-prop DEVICE "Device Enabled" 1
else
  echo "Something's up."
fi

Zacharee1

14:05

why

@ByteCommander do you know Bash?

Byte Commander

Roughly.

Zacharee1

Do you know if that script should work?

Byte Commander

You need $ in front of your variable names to read them.

Zacharee1

ahh

Byte Commander

And you should not use all-CAPS names, as those might be reserved by the system.

User lower or mixed case names for your own scripts.

Zacharee1

14:06

OK

#!/bin/bash

device=5

output=xinput list-props $device | awk '/Device Enabled/{print $4}'

if [ $output == 1 ]
  then
    xinput set-prop $device "Device Enabled" 0
elif [ $output == 0 ]
  then
    xinput set-prop $device "Device Enabled" 1
else
  echo "Something's up."
fi

Comments in Bash are # right?

Byte Commander

Yup.

Zacharee1

cool

so I can edit this into my answer

Byte Commander

And you need to use output=$(INSERT_COMMAND_HERE)

Zacharee1

OK

anything for the string/int?

well it's live askubuntu.com/questions/819148/…

wat askubuntu.com/questions/819175/the-gparted-snapshot

ugh

Anwar

14:21

device ID can change between boots i think

Zacharee1

I hate asking people to accept

@Anwar really?

Anwar

as far as i remember. not 100% sure

Zacharee1

hmm

doing some research

Anwar

@Zacharee1 same here. but no way! you have to. their are lots of new users these days :)

Zacharee1

yeah

Zanna

14:25

Lol echo "something's up"

Anwar

anyone using gnome shell or unity ?

Zacharee1

:p

Anwar

???

Zacharee1

I figured I might as well put an else in that isn't empty

@Anwar to Zanna

Zanna

You rather I ask them to accept for you?

Zacharee1

14:26

@Anwar GNOME on my server

@Zanna meh, I asked

we'll see

they took an hour to respond, so it might take another hour to accept

Zanna

They will I think

Anwar

you got 3 upgoats there! let me find the dupe target ;)

Zacharee1

tsk

Zanna

Hehehe

Anwar

57 mins ago, by Zacharee1

What's the point of writing answers if I don't even get downvotes?

jokerdino

14:28

deletevote

Anwar

yeah!

well if anyone is using unity or gnome-shell and are willing to test. gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.wm.preferences mouse-button-modifier '<Super><Alt>' please check if that change the alt-drag window to super-alt-drag?

@Zacharee1 I think, you can change the script based on property of the device

Anwar

14:48

something strange has happened!!

Kaz Wolfe

hockey stick rep spike?

Zacharee1

wat

Journeyman Geek

15:07

@KazWolfe basically your reputation graph has a sudden change in direction like _/

Zanna

what happened @Anwar ?

Serg

@Zacharee1 No that script isn't quite right. I'll fix it up

Anwar

that's what I wanted to know

jokerdino

What happened?

Anwar

I don't know!

Serg

15:12

@Zacharee1 here you go

#!/usr/bin/env bash
DEVICE=5

OUTPUT=$(xinput list-props $DEVICE | awk '/Device Enabled/{print $4}' )

if [ $OUTPUT == 1 ]
then
    xinput set-prop $DEVICE "Device Enabled" 0
elif [ $OUTPUT == 0 ]
then
    xinput set-prop $DEVICE "Device Enabled" 1
else
    echo "Something's not right."
fi

Anwar

it seems suddenly everyone stopped!

Serg

Variables are referenced with $VAR

output captured must be instide $( . . . )

Byte Commander

@Serg I told him that already :)

And using uppercase var names is discouraged because system and env vars are uppercase.

Ubuntu Questions on U&L

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Q: Remote Xserver - Not working with Ubuntu 16.04 on specific machine

I have scripted the install of Ubuntu Server 16.04 on two headless machines. Basically after I install stock Ubuntu Server 16.04 I run a setup.sh script that installs packages, adds users and configures a LAMP stack. One machine (HP Z820), when I ssh into it, a .Xauthority file is generated and...

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Kaz Wolfe

@JourneymanGeek ah.

so bascially what's going on with me now lol

drowning in upvotes :D

Journeyman Geek

15:22

lovely problem to have

Kaz Wolfe

capping at 10 in the morning is sad

Ask Ubuntu Meta

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Q: How did my profile picture change automatically?

I have not changed my profile picture or any other information in my profile. But can see a different identicon as my profile picture. Is it natural or some change is going on on the site?

support

jokerdino

15:43

Hmm @Zanna tell me you didn't go through my GR profile and blog posts.

Anwar

you still write blog?

jokerdino

@AskUbuntuMeta I had a similar problem when I had the identicon for a week or so. Scared me enough to force me to switch to my older gravatar.

@Anwar Nope :D

I realized I don't have that writing flair.

Anwar

hmm. If you don't write for a long period, it'll go

will return if you start again

jokerdino

That sounds true. Some of the things I wrote makes me wonder if it was me who wrote it. Because it is of a better quality than I can imagine writing right now.

Anwar

I experienced that :)

jokerdino

15:48

It's definitely quite a bit of shock.

Anwar

true that.

jokerdino

Well, the quality might not be par with native speakers/writers but it is still a level above my current abliity.

Anwar

It's practice that matter i think in this case

You can't even write longer posts, if you don't practice it

Even reading habit can be lost

jokerdino

I agree with you here.

Anwar

twitter/facebook contributed much on that imo

jokerdino

15:52

Yeah, I hate them both equally.

Serg

Well, NetworkManager wouldn't recognize my PEAP connection (even though I delected a file for that in /etc/NetworkManager/system-connections and tried reconnecting) untill I restarted NetworkManager. Not sure if that's a bug worth reporting

Anwar

I don't use twitter. but got addicted to fb. though I'm trying to get rid of it

Zanna

I totally agree with that, I read my old posts and think "hmmm surely I can't write like that" but it comes back with a bit of practice :) @Anwar @jokerdino

@jokerdino I didn't... well maybe a little. You can tell me not to, and I will resist :)

Anwar

writing a boring answer :(

don't know why

Serg

Not all answers can be exciting

On side note, I'm going to be studying Wireshark this semester in Data Communications class \ o/ WOOO, supar eggs-cited

Zanna

16:09

sweet :)

Anwar

I read sugar first

Serg

I probably should have used sugar , would confuse people even more :D

Anwar

phew!

bbl

Seth

@Zacharee1 ebay.com/itm/162184153474

Serg

16:24

was trying out the code just now, it's supposed to show value of the pointer of the previous function form the stack. Surprisingly the code from the book doesn't seem to work. Wonder if Linux kernel somehow fixed this . . . .or maybe the code is wrong

Zacharee1

@Seth o_O

@Serg Byte told me not to capitalize

Serg

@Zacharee1 not to capitalize what ?

Zacharee1

and my answer has the right one

variables

Serg

I capitalize them sometimes. Let me look up, there's gotta be a standard on this

Ah, i see. Lowercase is used to avoid confusing custom variables with environment variables. The all-caps variables are quite ubiquitous , so I think you are safe to use them @Zacharee1

Zacharee1

meh

I made them lowercase in the answer

might as well keep it ;P

Arronical

16:34

Just good practice really

Serg

yup, just a good practice, not set in stone

Kaz Wolfe

[ALERT] An item on the Star Board is over 48 hours old! Begin procedure 14: Purge Star Board!

3

Seth

@Zacharee1 seems like a pretty good deal to me.

@KazWolfe sigh

Kaz Wolfe

@Seth yes?

just doing my job.

Serg

@KazWolfe rm -rf star\ board.txt

Kaz Wolfe

16:37

lol this site sometimes

Zacharee1

@Seth yeah...

hope you like IPS

Serg

actually, that shouldn't be .txt, it's supposed to be a directory

Kaz Wolfe

17k starred items? gg.

Zacharee1

@KazWolfe floor rounding is very inaccurate

Kaz Wolfe

but sometimes very useful

Serg

16:40

The very first starred message is a pretty funny bug report from launchpad by Marco Ceppi

Kaz Wolfe

Oct 1 '10 at 14:59, by Marco Ceppi

Microsoft has a majority market share

Microsoft has a majority market share in the new desktop PC marketplace. This is a bug, which Ubuntu is designed to fix. Non-free software is holding back innovation in the IT industry, restricting access to IT to a small part of the world's population and limiting the ability of software developers to reach their full potential, globally. This bug is widely evident in the PC industry. Steps to repeat: 1. Visit a local PC store. What happens: 2. Observe that a majority of PCs for sale have non-free software pre-installed. 3. Observe very few PCs with Ubuntu and free software pre-installed. What should happen: 1. A majority of the PCs for sale should include only free software like Ubuntu. 2. Ubuntu should be marketed in a way such that its amazing features and benefits would be apparent and known by all. 3. The system shall become more and more user friendly as time passes.

Ubuntu

Critical / In Progress

Serg

October 1st, 2010 . . . wow . . .that was forever ago

I was 1 year in college at that time . . . not sure what else i was doing . . .

Kaz Wolfe

um....

Serg

lol , still fixin' it

Kaz Wolfe

someone change it please

Serg

16:44

Nov 1 '10 at 22:20, by Marco Ceppi

XD so much kek

Kaz Wolfe

Serg

Anybody dare to try this ?

print '\n'.join(i + "\n" + i for i in (
    'x\x9cSP\x80\x00m \x802\x15\xb8\x10B\x08a.\x141'
    '\xa8(\x17\xaa\x18D\x14&\x083\x14Y\x10A\xc2\x04\xc1J'
    '\x94\x95\xa1$\x01A\x84\x99\xc8\x82(\xd6\x93*\x08w)'
    '\x92\x99PG\x82\x05@\x18\x00O\x1b)\x05').decode("zip").replace(
    " ", u"\33[1m\u2588\u2588\u2588\33[m").replace("+",
    u"\33[1;%dm\u2588\u2588\u2588\33[m" % 31).replace("#",
    u"\33[0;30m\u2588\u2588\u2588\33[m").split("\n"))

Python

Zacharee1

dupe askubuntu.com/questions/819245/can-i-download-straight-to-my-pc

@Serg wat it do

Serg

@Zacharee1 it does pacman . . .

Just try it

Zacharee1

uhh

can I do like python -c or something in terminal?

Serg

16:50

Stefano posted it some time ago. I was reading the starwall

@Zacharee1 yeah, just run python, it'll open python shell , then paste the code there

Zacharee1

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lol

doesn't copy well

Serg

That's how it looks like

Zacharee1

yeah

Zanna

hehe scary

Ask Ubuntu Meta

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Q: Tag Synonym Request: [dual-monitor] -> [multiple-monitors]

This is a really simple request. Anything more than one monitor is multiple, and there really should be no distinction between dual monitors and multiple.

discussion tag-synonyms

edwinksl

17:07

that sentencing to using windows 10 though askubuntu.com/posts/819239/revisions

Zanna

hahaaha

automaximise?? dunno what they are talking about

edwinksl

no clue but anwar seems to know :)

Zacharee1

when you drag the window to the menu bar

Aero Snap but on Ubuntu

Zanna

+1 for @Anwar

what's wrong with that? seems pretty neat to me

Zacharee1

@Zanna I like that the sentencing is to use the OS where that feature originated :p

Zanna

17:12

hehehe indeed

Serg

@Zanna that feature can be sometimes annoying . . .

But can be useful too

Zanna

I've never noticed it even

I'm glad the question came up so I could discover that

<--noob

how are things going today @Serg ?

I'm sadly saying goodbye to my Arch machine tonight :(

Serg

@Zanna Had first class, super excited for that - Wireshark and networking. Figured that i will need to change my catalogue year, because otherwise it's going to be impossible for me to continue taking classes. Right side of chest doesn't feel that good. Gonna quit smoking for some time - need to recover my health.

Zacharee1

@Serg yessssssss

Zanna

:) sounds good

Anwar

17:26

@Zanna thank you :)

Zacharee1

I got my BT keyboard for my tablet :D

uh oh

jokerdino

@Zanna Just that I am a little apprehensive of someone reading what I write.

Anwar

though I didn't like that noise removal from @edwinksl

Serg

By my calculations there's tons of files to take, so what's likely going to happen is that . . . .I'll keep on taking classes, but I gotta slowly look for something external. College has been taking forever

Anwar

@jokerdino please link?

Zacharee1

17:28

@jokerdino don't post it :p

Anwar

I got me interested ...

edwinksl

@Anwar why is that?

Severus Tux

Hello everyone :)

jokerdino

@zanna You could read what I write but it's unusual for me to know that people actually happen to read what I wrote.

Anwar

@edwinksl should be sentenced to using windows 10 for lifetime :P

jokerdino

17:28

@Anwar just my blog that you already know about :)

@Zacharee1 No one ever reads my blog post. So, there is not much difference if it was private or public.

Zacharee1

ugh I have to do stuff

edwinksl

@Anwar that is evil

Anwar

@edwinksl It's fun :)

jokerdino

@SeverusTux hi

edwinksl

@Anwar i might just dual boot windows 10 though just to see how difficult it is. there are so many questions on this site about dual booting :/

Severus Tux

17:30

:)

Anwar

@SeverusTux hi :)

Severus Tux

Hello @Anwar :) I see that you are member from 4 years but I did'nt see you much around here ...

Anwar

@SeverusTux It's because I wasn't active on the site since since November '12

Severus Tux

I fact I am member from 7 months :P

Zanna

hi @SeverusTux ^_^

Severus Tux

17:35

:) Hi Zanna

I am making a small app from your answer

Zanna

which answer?

Severus Tux

creating bootable USB

this one --> askubuntu.com/a/781236/497359 , The famous UUI uses same techniques.. It uses 7Zip too

Zanna

oh great :)

awesome

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Q: On the terminal: in the function find

When i specify user in on the find function on the terminal: Why do I have to write a / before I write -user EXAMPLE? example: `find -user USERNAME` won't do anything whereas find / -user USERNAME Work exactly as intended? P.S: If I use 2 functions one after the other: find / -user USER...