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  snarfel

  8 months 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?
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  Quinn McHenry

  8 months 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
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  venkata sudheer

  7 months ago

  try this # find <folder path> -name <filename> -print
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  Jesse F.

  5 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!
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