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deadprogrammer
Asked: 2009-05-23 08:47:48 +0800 CST

ignoring errors in find / output

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how do I filter out permissions errors out of find / | grep foo output?

find grep

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  1. Best Answer

    Well, I think find / -iname '*foo*' would be a better command. But you can redirect stderr to /dev/null to get rid of all errors. Or redirect stderr to stdout and then filter with grep: 

    find / 2>/dev/null | grep foo
find \  |& grep 'No Such'
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