Greg Wooledge <wool...@eeg.ccf.org> writes: > If your actual problem is "Find all the files containing the string > StateRB, and suppress all error messages", then use this: > > find . -type f -exec grep -l StateRB {} \; 2>/dev/null
Or with a recent version of find (also POSIX): $ find . -type f -exec grep -l StateRB {} + 2>/dev/null which has the advantage of starting less grep jobs. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, sch...@linux-m68k.org GPG Key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different."