I think that

find / -name foo 2>&-

should do the trick (under ksh, anyway, and
probably zsh or bash as well). Csh variants
IIRC don't have the concept of closing a
file descriptor...

		tw

>>	
>>	The initial question was how to do
>>	
>>	find / -name foo 2> /dev/null 
>>	
>>	or similar if /dev/null is not present. (Eat is a place holder for a
>>	imaginary progrom acting as /dev/null replacement).
>>	
>>	I guess 
>>	
>>	find / -name foo 2>/dev/stdout 1>/dev/stderr | eat
>>	
>>	would (kinda) work, but it fails if you want to do
>>	
>>	find / -name foo 2> /dev/null | less
>>	
>>	Can be done with named pipes, though.
>>	
>>	
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