"Access denied" messages from DO

[vefatica]

These two commands produce identical STDOUT (here, 26 fully qualified file names).

ffind /m /s c:\windows\system32\*.log
do f in /d"c:\windows\system32" /s *.log ( echo %@full[%f] )

FFIND gives no error messages. DO gives 20 2-line "Access denied" messages.

Can the behavior be changed?

 

[rconn]

These two commands produce identical STDOUT (here, 26 fully qualified file names).

ffind /m /s c:\windows\system32\*.log
do f in /d"c:\windows\system32" /s *.log ( echo %@full[%f] )

FFIND gives no error messages. DO gives 20 2-line "Access denied" messages.

Can the behavior be changed?

What behavior?

 

[vefatica]

OK, I think I know what's happening. DO /S tries to make each directory the current directory. That fails for directories with "traverse / execute" denied. FFIND only looks at the contents (which is OK). I still don't like all the error messages.

What behavior?

All the "access denied" error messages.

 

[rconn]

You want DO to not tell you that it's not doing what you asked it to do? Just redirect STDERR to null.

And FFIND isn't doing what you think it is (see my reply to your FFIND thread).