Problem with find command in C-shell


 
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Old 11-29-2006
Problem with find command in C-shell

when i use the following command
find / -name '*.*' -exec grep -il 'text' {} \;
I can redirect the errors to /dev/null. This happens only in ksh but not in csh. the 2>/dev/null is not working in csh. Can you some one suggest an alternative for this in csh ?
# 2  
Old 11-29-2006
Do you get any 'Ambiguous output redirect'
Before that could you please check whether csh is given a symlink to tcsh !!!
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Old 11-29-2006
Can't do it!

See http://www.faqs.org/faqs/unix-faq/shell/csh-whynot/

Use another shell!
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Old 11-30-2006
Matrixmadhan

Here is what it gives when do a find
find: bad option 2
find: path-list predicate-list


Thanks for the reply to both of you.
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