Re: Using find / -name

From: Barry Margolin (barmar_at_alum.mit.edu)
Date: 04/18/05 

Date: Sun, 17 Apr 2005 21:13:11 -0400

In article <Xns963BB7DC32123ccruizermydejacom@64.164.98.29>,
 Cosmic Cruizer <XXjbhuntxx@white-star.com> wrote:

> How can I do a find / -name sometext
> That does not print each path that has
> cannot read dir /somepath/somepath : Permission denied
>
> I don't see anything in the man pages that lists any flags that will
> suppress the Permission denied items. I also tried to use grep with a -v,
> but that did not work.
>
> Thanks

Redirect stderr:

find / -name sometext 2>/dev/null 

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Barry Margolin, barmar@alum.mit.edu
Arlington, MA
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