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Old 11-29-2005
find command usage

I usually ise find to search a file or name on the unix, since I am not administrator, there will be many line appear 'cannot access',usually a hundred of lines. How can I prevent this line coming out? only show I want?
The command I use is :


find / -name abcdef -print

Thank all expert.
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Old 11-29-2005
Redirect all error messages to /dev/null

Code:
find / -name abcdef -print 2> /dev/null

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