http://tech-recipes.disqus.com/Cookbook of Tech TutorialsenThu, 08 Jan 2009 00:09:04 -0000http://www.tech-recipes.com/rx/21/find-a-file-by-name-in-unixsolarislinux/#comment-4978816His problem is is that he doesn't have permissions to view a lot of the files 'find' uses. Here's a few options:<br>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'<br>Or if you can get permission, then: 'sudo find /parent/path/here -name file_name.txt'<br><br>yay!Jesse F.Thu, 08 Jan 2009 00:09:04 -0000http://www.tech-recipes.com/rx/21/find-a-file-by-name-in-unixsolarislinux/#comment-3859941try this # find &lt;folder path&gt; -name &lt;filename&gt; -printvenkata sudheerMon, 17 Nov 2008 09:17:50 -0000http://www.tech-recipes.com/rx/21/find-a-file-by-name-in-unixsolarislinux/#comment-3235586Yeah, 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.<br><br>find / -name something 2&gt; /dev/nullqmchenryWed, 22 Oct 2008 15:30:32 -0000http://www.tech-recipes.com/rx/21/find-a-file-by-name-in-unixsolarislinux/#comment-3235423so, 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?snarfelWed, 22 Oct 2008 15:22:45 -0000