How to find all writable files by a specific user in unix

Linux find command to list all files writable by a specific user

To find all writable files in current directory that are writable by the current user: use the command writable 

find . -writable

To find all writable files in a specific directory that are writable by the specific user:

find {file_path} -writable -user {user_id} -type f -iname {file_pattern}

find infa/bdm/server/source/path -writable -user infa_user -type f -iname "source_fname_*.txt"

 

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