Essentially I am trying to avoid having this happen without using the 2>/dev/null, is there a way? I would like the output of the chown -c i have linked to it.
ex: find / -user fred -exec chown -c joe {} \;
I would like this to output "changed ownership of '{filename}' from fred to joe" chown -c provides for this functionality but I can't get the output if I have to redirect the whole thing to avoid find's errors!
Thanks for any advice!
Use process substitution:
find / -user fred -exec chown -c joe {} \; \
2> >(grep -v 'no such file or directory' >&2)
2> redirects stderr; >(...) reads the redirected stderr, grep -v removes the unwanted lines, and >&2 returns the remaining lines back to stderr