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cseguino

Posted: Tue May 05, 2009 6:52 am

Joined: Tue May 05, 2009 6:49 am
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Hello,

I'm executing the following command using cygwin :

Code:

$ find . | xargs grep -v "No such file or directory" | grep "StateRB"
grep: ./Tiger/codebase/netmarkets/jsp/ext/eurocopter/tiger/change/.svn/text-base/Copy: No such file or directory
grep: of: No such file or directory
grep: createLink.jsp.svn-base: No such file or directory
grep: ./Tiger/codebase/netmarkets/jsp/ext/eurocopter/tiger/change/.svn/text-base/Copy: No such file or directory
grep: of: No such file or directory
grep: relatedECP.jsp.svn-base: No such file or directory
grep: ./Tiger/codebase/netmarkets/jsp/ext/eurocopter/tiger/change/Copy: No such file or directory
grep: of: No such file or directory
grep: createLink.jsp: No such file or directory
grep: ./Tiger/codebase/netmarkets/jsp/ext/eurocopter/tiger/change/Copy: No such file or directory
grep: of: No such file or directory

I would like not to display the "No such file or directory" output. Can anyone help me ?

Cheers,

Christophe

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jeo

Posted: Tue May 05, 2009 7:23 am

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There's probably a more elegant solution, but try redirecting the stderr from the find command to stdout, so that your grep -v will catch those messages:

Code:

find . 2>&1 | xargs grep -v "No such file or directory" | grep "StateRB"

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cseguino

Posted: Wed May 06, 2009 12:59 am

Joined: Tue May 05, 2009 6:49 am
Posts: 4

It still doesn't work :

Code:

$ find . 2>&1 | xargs grep -v "No such file or directory" | grep "StateRB"
grep: ./Tiger/codebase/netmarkets/jsp/ext/eurocopter/tiger/change/.svn/text-base/Copy: No such file or directory
grep: of: No such file or directory
grep: createLink.jsp.svn-base: No such file or directory
grep: ./Tiger/codebase/netmarkets/jsp/ext/eurocopter/tiger/change/.svn/text-base/Copy: No such file or directory
grep: of: No such file or directory
grep: relatedECP.jsp.svn-base: No such file or directory
grep: ./Tiger/codebase/netmarkets/jsp/ext/eurocopter/tiger/change/Copy: No such file or directory
grep: of: No such file or directory

Cheers,

Christophe

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DarthWavy

Posted: Thu May 07, 2009 8:52 am

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Posts: 212
Location: London - UK

your use of xargs is the issue, the output from the find command is supplied as an argument to grep not as the input;

this will check each file 'hello' and 'there' for the lines missing the content 'wibble'

Code:

echo hello there | xargs grep -v wibble

where as this will check what the echo outputs and remove lines containing 'wibble'

Code:

echo hello there | grep -v wibble

what I suspect you actually need (and this is a guess);

Code:

find . 2>/dev/null | xargs grep "StateRB"

or maybe;

Code:

find . 2>&1 | grep -v "No such file or directory" | xargs grep "StateRB"

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flint

Posted: Fri Feb 19, 2010 7:37 am

Joined: Fri Feb 19, 2010 7:35 am
Posts: 1

Greetings,

This does it...

find . |xargs grep -i val 2>/dev/null | grep -i tracy

Note that the error is from the grep not from the find...
curious but it works.

Regards,

Flint

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spoonyfork

Posted: Mon May 09, 2011 7:33 am

Joined: Mon May 09, 2011 7:31 am
Posts: 1

Don't forget that grep has the -s option to deal with this as well.

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crouse

Posted: Wed May 11, 2011 9:28 am

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Posts: 644
Location: Des Moines, Iowa

I'd have to agree with spoonyfork ... use the -s option.

Code:

    -s, --no-messages
              Suppress error messages about nonexistent or unreadable  files.   Portability  note:  unlike  GNU  grep,  7th
              Edition Unix grep did not conform to POSIX, because it lacked -q and its -s option behaved like GNU grep's -q
              option.  USG-style grep also lacked -q but its -s option behaved  like  GNU  grep.   Portable  shell  scripts
              should  avoid  both  -q  and  -s  and should redirect standard and error output to /dev/null instead.  (-s is
              specified by POSIX.)

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