find (permission denied warnings)

mune · 2005-06-25 02:54:04

Is there any way to not display those annoying "find: permission denied" errors? I'm well aware that I don't have access to certain folders and I don't need find telling me . I tried -nowarn but to no avail. Also, I tried searching the forums/google but there is far too much ambiguity in the word "find" :cry: .

I found somewhere that you can simply type

find /tmp -name foo 2> /dev/null

However, it's rather annoying to type that after every find command. Any ideas?

T-Dawg · 2005-06-25 03:21:03

well you could just do a script:

#!/bin/bash
[ $# != 2 ] && {
    echo "requires two fields!"
     exit 1
}
find $1 -name $2 2>/dev/null

then you would just need to type in <script> /tmp foo

but move it to /usr/bin/ and chmod 755 to make it global.

Dusty · 2005-06-25 04:39:47

You could also make the script a function in your ~/.bashrc, since its so small.

sudman1 · 2005-06-25 08:44:32

You can just

find / -name foo 2> /dev/null

juergen · 2005-06-25 08:59:04

i prefer alias:

alias fn="find 2>/dev/null"

mune · 2005-06-25 13:14:27

Thanks All of those work great.

Euphoric Nightmare · 2005-06-25 22:43:45

You could alternatively use 'slocate', if that fits your needs. 'slocate -u' as root to update the list.

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