UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

I am trying to list file names that contains a give string using this command:
$ find . -name "*" -maxdepth 1 -exec grep "*mystring*" {} \;

I get lots of messages like the ones below:

grep: Cannot open file './NTUSER.DAT': Device busy
grep: Cannot open file './ntuser.dat.LOG': Device busy

My quesiton is:
1- Is the above command correct?
2- Is there a way to get rid of the messages and only keep the files that were opened OK?

Thanks,

Your command is correct. You're running the command against a windows partition of some kind (are you running cygwin/interix/mks?) NTUSER.dat* will be in use via a login and thus will report busy. If under Windows you try to move/copy/etc NTUSER.dat* and from C:\documents and settings\someuser\ and "someuser" is logged in this behaviour will occur too.

You can redirect STDERR to /dev/null to send the error output to the bit bucket...

e.g.
<my find command here> 2> /dev/null

Cheers
ZB