Find statement

[teser]

I have a find statement with awk that works but I want to eliminate the permission denied output messages such as this example: find: cannot read dir ./proc/449: Permission denied. They seem to come up with some of my searches. My find
does get the data I need but I dont want to see these Permission denied messages coming up on my screen.

Here is the find statement:
[tt]
find . -name "$dat" -exec ls -Fd {} \; | awk '{.............}'[/tt]

I have tried fitting in the [tt] 2> /dev/null[/tt] in my find statement but it still shows the permission denieds on my find.

Any suggestions??

 

[KenCunningham]

Could you pipe it further to or through a grep -v 'permission' or similar? HTH.

 

[stanhubble]

You could also "prune" the proc directories from the find command itself.

stan

 

[teser]

I tried the [tt]grep -v 'permission'[/tt] such as:
[tt]find . -name "$dat" -exec ls -Fd {} \; | grep -v 'permission denied' | awk '{...}'[/tt]
but still got the messages. How does "prune" work?

 

[stanhubble]

how about
find . -path './proc' -prune -o -name "$dat" -exec ....

hth
stan

 

[badco]

Try this with parantheses.

(find . -name "$dat" -exec ls -Fd {} \; | awk '{.............}') 2>/dev/null

 

[KenCunningham]

I note that in your grep you have 'permission denied'. Try with 'Permission denied', ie exactly as in the error message. HTH.

 

[mohand1]

You could do something like this ...

find . -name "$dat" -exec ls -Fd {} \; 2>/dev/null | awk '{.............}'

This should work.