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From: an141226@anon.penet.fi
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Date: Fri, 28 Oct 1994 09:07:26 UTC
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I've been trying to do this:

find . -name ytalk -print

from the root directory to see if anyone has a certain file in a "public"
directory on the system (in this example: ytalk).  But my output goes
haywire:

find: cannot read dir ./lost+found: Permission denied
find: cannot read dir ./c2/lost+found: Permission denied
find: cannot read dir ./export/lost+found: Permission denied
  etc, etc... FOREVER!

Is there a way to suppress these error messages?  Or have find ignore
errors?  I tried the man pages and saw the -perm switch, but that didn't
work.  Any ideas? Is this possible on a unix system?

an141226@anon.penet.fi
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