Hello all,

I using the follow command to find this IP any where in the system.

The command is working but produces unwanted output when the string isn't found.

My questions is this; howw can I eliminate the unwanted lines and only place the hits in a file.

rep: /home/rifkinho/.kde/share/apps/RecentDocuments/FDRPAS: No such file or directory
grep: and: No such file or directory
grep: FDRERASE.pdf[2].desktop: No such file or directory
/home/rifkinho/.kde/share/apps/RecentDocuments/.desktop:Name=https://216.254.113.27:10000
/home/rifkinho/.kde/share/apps/RecentDocuments/.desktop:URL=https://216.254.113.27:10000
grep: /home/rifkinho/.kde/share/apps/RecentDocuments/FDRPAS: No such file or directory

Just want the lines with the IP address to either appear and none of the junk and/or the lines with the IP address to go into a file.

Thanks.

Separate stdout and stderr - usually put the latter to /dev/null.

There is the exact command I'm using:

find / -type f | xargs grep '216\.254\.93\.22'

Separate stdout and stderr - usually put the latter to /dev/null.

How do set up what you said above?

find / -type f 2>/dev/null | xargs grep '216\.254\.93\.22'

Thanks Anupamsr.

Could you please tell me what the '2' stands for?

The 2 represents stderr. So the command dumps the contents of the error stream to /dev/null. Usually, both stderr and stdout get sent to the console output, hence you were getting a mess.

Um .... why not just a
egrep -rl '216\.254\.93\.22' /* 2>/dev/null



Cheers,
Tink

Yes, that would be better. I never looked into grep too much myself...