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Old 10-05-2006
piping the output of find command to grep
Hi,

I did not understand why the following did not work out as I expected:

find . -name "pqp.txt" | grep -v "Permission"


I thought I would be able to catch whichever paths containing my pqp.txt file without receiving the display of messages such as "find: cannot access... Permisson denied", but it did not work.

Anyone could explain me the reason why ?

Thanks,
Abraham
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Old 10-05-2006
what you're "grepping out' is displayed to stderr, not stdout.

redirect stderr [2] to stdout [1] like so:
Code:
find . -name 'pqp.txt' 2>&1 | grep -v 'Permission'

or better yet redirect stderr to '/dev/null':
Code:
find . -name 'pqp.txt' 2>/dev/null

 
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