Supresss the 'no such file or directory' message from 'find'

I'm trying to find a directory with this command:

find /users/dan/ -name 'Prams' -type d

I see a huge amount of 'No such file or directory' output. Is there a way to make find shut up if it doesn't find anything?

nulltorpedo

Posted 2012-02-25T01:23:44.620

Reputation: 259

this worked for me: find /users/dan/ -name 'Prams' -type d | tee log – nulltorpedo – 2012-02-25T01:41:58.263

1the pipe without ampersand only outputs std output. If it was |& log, it will print those errors as well. – nulltorpedo – 2012-02-25T01:42:32.883

Answers

Try this:

find /users/dan/ -name 'Prams' -type d 2>/dev/null

Book Of Zeus

Posted 2012-02-25T01:23:44.620

Reputation: 1 822

it says: find:paths must precede expression. I am running linux 2.6.9-67.0.7 – nulltorpedo – 2012-02-25T01:32:29.773

which flavor: can you run uname -a – Book Of Zeus – 2012-02-25T01:38:03.470

Linux machine-3 2.6.9-67.0.7.ELsmp #1 SMP Wed Feb 27 04:47:23 EST 2008 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux – nulltorpedo – 2012-02-25T01:40:32.260

this worked for me: find /users/dan/ -name 'Prams' -type d | tee log – nulltorpedo – 2012-02-25T01:40:47.767

interesting, this didn't work for me – Book Of Zeus – 2012-02-25T01:42:45.290

I am at a work machine. could be a lot of custom tools/distros, so i am not surprised – nulltorpedo – 2012-02-25T01:46:53.343

probably, I am using Ubuntu which is probably different from yours – Book Of Zeus – 2012-02-25T01:51:08.777

You can suppress the STDERR output:

find /users/dan/ -name 'Prams' -type d 2> /dev/null

Or you can use find to show all directories and filter its output with grep:

find /users/dan -type d | grep "Prams"

The find command won't print "no such file or directory" if the search path (/users/dan, in this case) exists, even if there are no matches. Are you sure this directory exists?

Christopher Neylan

Posted 2012-02-25T01:23:44.620

Reputation: 701

His syntax is correct if indeed /users/dan/ < exists in the first place!

There should be no 'No such file or directory' outputs in the first place.

find $HOME -name 'Prams' -type d

tao

Posted 2012-02-25T01:23:44.620

Reputation: 1 355