Editing Find (Unix) (section)

===Ignore errors===
If you're doing this as a user other than root, you might want to ignore permission denied (and any other) errors. Since errors are printed to [[stderr]], they can be suppressed by redirecting the output to /dev/null. The following example shows how to do this in the bash shell:
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$ find / -name myfile -type f -print 2> /dev/null
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If you are a [[C shell|csh]] or [[tcsh]] user, you cannot redirect [[stderr]] without redirecting [[stdout]] as well. You can use sh to run the <code>find</code> command to get around this:
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$ sh -c "find / -name myfile -type f -print 2> /dev/null"
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An alternate method when using [[C shell|csh]] or [[tcsh]] is to pipe the output from [[stdout]] and [[stderr]] into a [[grep]] command. This example shows how to suppress lines that contain permission denied errors.
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$ find . -name myfile |& grep -v 'Permission denied'
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