Re: Avoid "permission denied" in find command

[Jacob Fugal <jpfugal@xxxxxxx>]

I tried this on csh on a machine with:

SunOS hostname 5.6 Generic_105181-11 sun4u sparc SUNW,Ultra-1

And I got:

hostname% find /dir -name "foo*" 2>/dev/null
find: bad option 2
find: path-list predicate-list

Jacob Fugal
jpfugal@xxxxxxx


Brian McPherson wrote:
> Jacob Fugal wrote:
> > Hello all,
> >
> > Does anyone know a good way to avoid the "find: cannot read dir ' . . 
> > . . ' Permission denied" lines when executing the find command. In my 
> > experience it buries the useful information. I tried grep, but it 
> > appears that the | grep only gets the output and find pours this not 
> > very useful message to stderr. My only way around it is to sudo find, 
> > but I'm not sudo on every machine. Any ideas? It's really annoying.
> >
> > Jacob Fugal
> > jpfugal@xxxxxxx
>
> find foo 2> /dev/null
>
>
> Sends stderr to /dev/null.
>
> -Brian McPherson