In order to avoid that, we try the following find command along with grep command on Linux or Unix-like systems: find / -name foo 2>&1 | grep -v "Permission denied"įind / -type d -name bar 2>&1 | grep -v "Permission denied"Īlso, we can use the below syntax to skip “permission denied” errors messages when running find in Linux or Unix-based systems: find /path/to/dir -name "search-patter" 2>&1 | grep -v "Permission denied"įind /etc -name "x*.conf" 2>&1 | grep -v "Permission denied" The one problem with the following command is that it would filter out all error messages created by the find command and not just the permission denied ones: find / -name foo 2>/dev/null iname "data*.txt" -print 2>/dev/null > output.txtĮxclude all “permission denied” messages from the “find” command on Linux To redirect standard error to /dev/null and store file list to output.txt, we type: redirect error spam to /dev/null #įind. The system discards all data written on a /dev/null special file. We use /dev/null to send any unwanted output from program/command. Here, at the end of the find command 2>/dev/null tells the shell to redirect the error messages (FD #2) to /dev/null, so we don’t have to see them on screen. Here is the output without permission denied spam from find command. # redirect error spam message to /dev/null #įind where-to-look criteria action 2>/dev/nullįind. So, we use the below syntax to avoid the problem. In the above example, we don’t have the read permission for vmware-root and orbit-Debian-gdm directories. How to hide or fix find command permission denied messages So, we can hide or fix find command permission denied messages. Recently, one of our customers was trying to execute the below find command in Linux/Unix and received “Permission denied” error messages.
Now let’s take a look at how our Support Engineers tackle the error when executing the find command. How we tackle ‘ignore permission denied message from find’
In this example, find will search the /tmp directory for any files named “data*.txt” and display their pathnames: find /path/to/dir -name "pattern" -print Today we’ll take a look at the cause for this error and see how to fix it.įor instance, the syntax is as follows: find where-to-look criteria actionįind /home/nixcraft/project/ -name "*.py" -print Here at Bobcares, we have seen several such Linux-related errors as part of our Server Management Services for web hosts, Linux users, and online service providers. While running find command, received an error ‘ignore permission denied message from find’? We can help you.
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