C-shell, suppressing output of "find: cannot open

[Bettina Ofner]

I have a c-shell with a find command in it.
Is it possible to suppress the output
find: cannot open ... if there is a directory for which the user has no rights.
Error message is confusing users, altought it
is not relevant for the shell (works OK)
Best regards
Bettina

[Lasse Knudsen]

find "whatever it might be" >& /dev/null

[RikTytgat]

Hi,

You can achieve what you want by using following construction:

(program > /dev/tty ) >& stderr_file

stdout will go to the tty, stderr will go to the file stdeerr_file.

Hope this helps,
Rik.

[RikTytgat]

Hi,

Allan's solution also puts stdout into the file.

Bye,
Rik.

[Lasse Knudsen]

Yeah I saw that - sorry.

[Bettina Ofner]

Need to use the find information
construction is
set liste = `find ....`
If I use >dev/tty liste is empty

[Dan Hetzel]

Hi,

This example should do the trick:

set liste=`find /etc -name "*.conf" |& grep -v "^find:"`

|& redirects stderr with stdout, in this case into the pipe

Dan

[Rainer_1]

redirect stderr in posix-sh is easier.
set liste=`/sbin/sh -c "find ... 2>/dev/null"`

[Stefan Schulz]

AFAIK there is a set command which should supress such error messages.

think it is:

set nonomatch

Perhaps setting this in your script befor the find command it supresses this messages.

don't know if this works.

[Maureen Gunkel]

When running the find command, I use the following to suppress just the error messages:

find 2>/dev/null

the 2 says errors only
>/dev/null says output to the null device.

Hope this helps.

[Maureen Gunkel]

When running the find command, I use the following to suppress just the error messages:

find 2>/dev/null

the 2 says errors only
>/dev/null says output to the null device.

Hope this helps.