09-03-2002
If you don't want all that junk that goes along with a find output from /, then use the 2> /dev/null.
This will send all erroneous messages that would normally come from stderr to stdout and send them to /dev/null so your screen will only show you the result you are seeking or nothing if the search had no result.
find / -name myfile 2> /dev/null
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LEARN ABOUT FREEBSD
stderr
FD(4) BSD Kernel Interfaces Manual FD(4)
NAME
fd, stdin, stdout, stderr -- file descriptor files
DESCRIPTION
The files /dev/fd/0 through /dev/fd/# refer to file descriptors which can be accessed through the file system. If the file descriptor is
open and the mode the file is being opened with is a subset of the mode of the existing descriptor, the call:
fd = open("/dev/fd/0", mode);
and the call:
fd = fcntl(0, F_DUPFD, 0);
are equivalent.
Opening the files /dev/stdin, /dev/stdout and /dev/stderr is equivalent to the following calls:
fd = fcntl(STDIN_FILENO, F_DUPFD, 0);
fd = fcntl(STDOUT_FILENO, F_DUPFD, 0);
fd = fcntl(STDERR_FILENO, F_DUPFD, 0);
Flags to the open(2) call other than O_RDONLY, O_WRONLY and O_RDWR are ignored.
IMPLEMENTATION NOTES
By default, /dev/fd is provided by devfs(5), which provides nodes for the first three file descriptors. Some sites may require nodes for
additional file descriptors; these can be made available by mounting fdescfs(5) on /dev/fd.
FILES
/dev/fd/#
/dev/stdin
/dev/stdout
/dev/stderr
SEE ALSO
tty(4), devfs(5), fdescfs(5)
BSD
June 9, 1993 BSD