How to delete all files owned by root

Shell Scripting & Linux CLI
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I have in antiX26, a misbehaving live-iso-maker that leaves about 50 scratch files in my home directory after it finishes.
Sometimes it cleans up, other times it leaves rubbish, it is intermittant.

The file names are a collage of names. It would be difficult to select them by name … unless I made a list
but
their common feature is they are all owned by root, whereas all other files in my directory are owned by nevj.

So is it possible to write an rm command that deletes only root owned files? … and it would have to avoid deleting .. which is the parent directory.

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I think your goal can be reached combining find, xargs and rm.
According to find ( https://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/how-do-i-find-all-the-files-owned-by-a-particular-user-or-group/ ) this should be possible:

find $HOME -user root

That looks for root owned files in your home.
Inspect what it outputs, and treat it as a dry run.
If it produces a list you expect, run it with the delete command:
find $HOME -user root -print0 | xargs rm

You will be able finish the real command, this just an idea…