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If you want to suppress error messages such as

find / -name file 
find: cannot read dir /lost+found: Permission denied
/dir/file

as these messages are written to errout and not stdout, a nice trick is to pipe errout to null

find / -name file 2> /dev/null
/dir/file

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+== Tips ==
+If you want to suppress error messages such as
+ find / -name file
+ '''find: cannot read dir /lost+found: Permission denied'''
+ /dir/file
+as these messages are written to errout and not stdout, a nice trick is to pipe errout to null
+ find / -name file '''2> /dev/null'''
+ /dir/file