DISQUS

snarfel · 1 year ago

so, i get a bunch of "Permission Denied" notices for directories that my current user account can't access. is there a way to suppress these?
Quinn McHenry · 1 year ago

Yeah, totally. Normal output goes to "standard output" which can be redirected with normal measures. It's actually a nice thing that those messages are sent to "standard error" so you can redirect those but keep the more interesting responses.

find / -name something 2> /dev/null
venkata sudheer · 1 year ago

try this # find <folder path> -name <filename> -print
Jesse F. · 11 months ago

His problem is is that he doesn't have permissions to view a lot of the files 'find' uses. Here's a few options:
If you don't have root permission, then you can supress error messages like so: 'find -ignore_readdir_race /parent/path/here -name file_name.txt'
Or if you can get permission, then: 'sudo find /parent/path/here -name file_name.txt'

yay!