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My goal is to write a command to locate a file called MABLE on my server. Then I need to craft this command to report no permission errors, but print out every other error.

Currently, I'm using

find / -name MABLE

After that, I'm putting in

ls -d mable

This is not working. Any better way write the command?

zx485
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jjc
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You can use "process substitution" to pass the results of the find command to grep, in order to filter out the messages including : Permission denied as in:

find / -name MABLE 2> >(grep -v ': Permission denied')

2> captures the error output and redirects that to the grep command, to which that output appears as a file (an "unnamed pipe").

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