Suppress find & grep "cannot open" output
filtering, find, grep, unix
Solution
Have you tried redirecting stderr to /dev/null ?
2>/dev/null
So the above redirects stream no.2 (which is stderr) to /dev/null. That's shell dependent, but the above should work for most. Because find and grep are different processes, you may have to do it for both, or (perhaps) execute in a subshell. e.g.
find ... 2>/dev/null | xargs grep ... 2>/dev/null
Here's a reference to some documentation on bash redirection. Unless you're using csh, this should work for most.
Problem
I was given this syntax by user phi ``` find . | awk '!/((\.jpeg)|(\.jpg)|(\.png))$/ {print $0;}' | xargs grep "B206" ``` I would like to suppress the output of grep: can't open..... and find: cannot open lines from the results. sample output to be ignored: ``` grep: can't open ./cisc/.xdbhist find: cannot open ./cisc/.ssh ```