[plug] FW: New network card - update

Nick Bannon nick at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au
Mon Nov 2 13:20:01 WST 1998


On Sat, Oct 31, 1998 at 08:06:27PM +0800, Christian wrote:
> You could also use: grep blah `find .` 2> /dev/null
> 
> This also redirects stderr to /dev/null which prevents grep from
> complaining that you're trying to grep a directory (this is also a problem
> with the xargs method).  
[...]

Very handy - that'll also help if you're not root, so that your screen
doesn't get covered with "Permission denied" errors, depending on which
directory you're trying to search through...

Nick.

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