Discarding errors from find-dired

Discarding errors from find-dired

[Doug Lewan]

I'd like to discard stderr from the find command in (find-dired) and would appreciate pointers.

It looks like (grep-apply-setting) is the right function to use, since "This variable's value takes effect when `grep-compute-defaults' is called." (from the help for find-program). However, I haven't found anything useful looking through the code for (grep-compute-defaults).

(grep-compute-defaults) both establishes and manipulates the grep-host-defaults-alist, which is not documented well.

Thanks.

,Douglas
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Re: Discarding errors from find-dired

[Michael Heerdegen]

Doug Lewan <dougl@shubertticketing.com> writes:

> I'd like to discard stderr from the find command in (find-dired) and
> would appreciate pointers.
>
> It looks like (grep-apply-setting) is the right function to use, since
> "This variable's value takes effect when `grep-compute-defaults' is
> called." (from the help for find-program). However, I haven't found
> anything useful looking through the code for (grep-compute-defaults).
>
> (grep-compute-defaults) both establishes and manipulates the
> grep-host-defaults-alist, which is not documented well.

Can you describe a bit clearer what problem you are trying to solve?
If your question is about find-dired, how is this related to grep?  Or
do you mean `find-grep-dired'?

Michael.