find command suppressing messages

Question

whenever i execute find command for searching for some file

like

find . -name "abc"

specially from the root,it displays lots of "cannot open or cannot search "

how can suppress those messages?is there any flag for that?

Answer 1

You can direct the standard error stream to /dev/null, viz:

find . -name "abc" 2>/dev/null

Answer 2

you can suppress by piping stderr(2) to /dev/null or to a log file for later viewing

find . -name "abc" 2>/dev/null
find . -name "abc" 2>/errorlog.txt