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Old 04-18-2012
Bug Find the similar directory

Hi

I have one directory whose name i don't remember exactly only starting letter i know which is Resp.

Can you please let me know the command to find the similar directory in the root.

Rajesh
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Old 04-18-2012
Code:
 
find / -type d -name "Resp*" 2>/dev/null

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Old 04-18-2012
Hi what is the 2nd command 2>/dev/null
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Old 04-18-2012
redirect the stderr to /dev/null file

so, that you wont see the error messages like "permission denied...etc"
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