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find question

Ionut Grigorescu_2 — Thu, 31 Jul 2003 13:55:28 GMT

Hi all,

when I'm running find as a normal user in csh I get the error message:
find: cannot open xxxx
find / -name filename -print 2>/dev/null returns me the error:
missing conjunction
any idea?

Re: find question

curt larson_1 — Thu, 31 Jul 2003 13:57:32 GMT

qoute your wildcard characters

Re: find question

Pete Randall — Thu, 31 Jul 2003 13:58:10 GMT

Ionut,

Interesting - I just tried it with ksh and got no errors.

Pete

Re: find question

Pete Randall — Thu, 31 Jul 2003 14:00:17 GMT

Ionut,

Actually, I just switched to csh and got no errors, either. Strange!

Pete

Re: find question

Justo Exposito — Thu, 31 Jul 2003 14:00:27 GMT

Hi,

Put:

find / -name "filename" -print
or
find / -name 'filename' -print

Regards,
Justo.

Re: find question

John Palmer — Thu, 31 Jul 2003 14:03:27 GMT

Hi,

It sounds as though you are including wildcard characters (? or *) in filename.

When you do that you either have to quote the whole string, something like:

find . -name "wild*card"

or 'quote' the wildcard character:

find . -name wild\*card

Regar

Re: find question

John Palmer — Thu, 31 Jul 2003 14:03:42 GMT

Re: find question

Helen French — Thu, 31 Jul 2003 14:03:57 GMT

Missing conjunction error normally appears when you specify -name option without a quot:

# find ..options ...-name 'filename' -print

Re: find question

Tim D Fulford — Thu, 31 Jul 2003 14:08:02 GMT

One or more thinks may be confusing the issue/wrong!!

1 - You MUST be using ksh or sh otherwise the 2>/dev/null will fail. If you are using csh or tcsh then 2>/dev/null will not help (no such thing as std err in C-shell)
2 - No need for the -print, but it will not hurt
3 - put a backslash before wild cards

Regards

Tim

Re: find question

Ionut Grigorescu_2 — Thu, 31 Jul 2003 14:09:47 GMT

It doesn' work!! On all machines I have tried is the same. I always re-direct the output to a file I delete after, cause I cannot get rid of the cannot open xxxx messages. with ksh is ok but in csh is always the same problem!

Re: find question

Tim D Fulford — Thu, 31 Jul 2003 14:12:34 GMT

cannot oper xxxx means no permissions on that dir...

Tim

Re: find question

Pete Randall — Thu, 31 Jul 2003 14:20:11 GMT

Ionut,

How about a work-around then:

find / -name filename -print |grep -v 'cannot'

Pete

Re: find question

Pete Randall — Thu, 31 Jul 2003 14:21:43 GMT

Ionut,

Disregard, that doen't work.

Pete

Re: find question

john korterman — Thu, 31 Jul 2003 14:53:05 GMT

Hi,
as already said, C-shell does not have any redirection control of standard error. Hence C-shell does not understand the "2>"??; it believes this to be an option to the "find" command.
I think it will correspond this in sh:
# find . -name plut -print 2
which will produce a similar error message.

regards,
John K.

Re: find question

Michael Kelly_5 — Thu, 31 Jul 2003 15:04:22 GMT

Ionut,
run your find command in a subshell like this:
(find / -name filename >`tty`) >&/dev/null

HTH,
Michael.

Re: find question

Ionut Grigorescu_2 — Thu, 31 Jul 2003 15:10:28 GMT

Thanx a lot Michael - that was the right one!
case closed