find error?? find / -name "something.txt" 2>/dev/null

magiling · June 15, 2011, 2:56pm

why is this giving me errors?

i type this in:

find / -name "something.txt" 2>/dev/null

i get the following error messages:

find: bad option 2
find: path-list predicate-list

Corona688 · June 15, 2011, 4:03pm

What are you typing that into?

magiling · June 15, 2011, 5:31pm

Holy cow, you're right! it is the server i typed that into. it is some server i ssh into.

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find / -name "something.txt" <--- this works, but it shows lots of errors

bartus11 · June 15, 2011, 5:37pm

What shell are you using? Is it CSH maybe?

magiling · June 15, 2011, 7:23pm

yea, it is

bartus11 · June 16, 2011, 2:25am

Use KSH, or BASH then.