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Old March 1st, 2005, 03:21 PM
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Using find command
How would I use find to display the names of all files in the /home subdirectory tree without displaying errors for files I can't read?

Is this correct?

find /home -name * -print 2>/dev/null
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IMPORTANT: which shell are you using? by bourne¦korn¦bash just try:
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find /home 2>/dev/null

or when working on YOUR home
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cd ; find . 2>/dev/null

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well in bash, you could just do the following:

find /home -name "*" -print | grep -v "Permission denied"



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find /home -type f 2>/dev/null
or
find /home -type f -ls 2>/dev/null
or
find /home -type f -exec ls -l {} \; 2>/dev/null


and as guggach pointed out... get relative pathnames by changing to /home first and then doing "find ." (useful for backups...)
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well in bash, you could just do the following:
find /home -name "*" -print | grep -v "Permission denied"

sorry christo, who teached you that?
find /home -name "*" : is a st..*y AND will not find dotfiles
-print IS OBSOLETE (i repeat)
grep -v "Permission denied" NEVER heard about 2>/dev/null
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sorry christo, who teached you that?
find /home -name "*" : is a st..*y AND will not find dotfiles
-print IS OBSOLETE (i repeat)
grep -v "Permission denied" NEVER heard about 2>/dev/null



woah easy, dude... it was just a fleeting poke at a solution. Probably it wasn't the best, but it's just what tricked off my fingers at the time.


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