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From: schaefer@rbg.informatik.th-darmstadt.de (Arno Schaefer)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions,comp.unix.aix,comp.unix.bsd,comp.unix.misc,comp.unix.programmer,comp.unix.programmers,comp.unix.shell,comp.unix.solaris,comp.unix.user-friendly
Subject: Re: No subject
Date: 28 Oct 1994 10:23:05 GMT
Organization: TU Darmstadt
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Distribution: world
Message-ID: <38qje9$111q@rs18.hrz.th-darmstadt.de>
References: <091312Z28101994@anon.penet.fi>
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In article <091312Z28101994@anon.penet.fi>, an141226@anon.penet.fi writes:

> 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?

find . -name ytalk -print 2>/dev/null

Arno

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