Remove some lines of output from find(shell) command

Question

I am trying to find the list of all git repositories on my local machine. I do get all of them but I also get some repositories which have Permission denied in the output

find . -name .git -type d -prune | sed '/Permission/d'

The output of the command is

find: ./.Trash/Fuze_old.app/Contents/Frameworks/Fuze Helper.app: Permission denied
./.nvm/.git
./.oh-my-zsh/.git
./.Trash/AutoLayout/.git
./.Trash/DemoProject/.git
find: ./Library/Python: Permission denied
./.Trash/NavView/.git
./.Trash/Something/.git
./.zsh/zsh-autosuggestions/.git

I do not want the lines with Permission denied.

How do I get that?

Those probably go to stderr and you can discard them with 2> /dev/null. — Benjamin W.
– Benjamin W., Commented Jun 13, 2017 at 13:59
Possible duplicate of How can I exclude all "permission denied" messages from "find"? — Benjamin W.
– Benjamin W., Commented Jun 13, 2017 at 14:00

Jonathan Leffler · Accepted Answer · 2017-06-14 00:07:33Z

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The "permission denied" lines are likely on STDERR instead of STDOUT, which is why your sed command is ineffective. Try this (if you're on a Unix-like system):

find . -name .git -type d -prune 2>/dev/null

edited Jun 14, 2017 at 0:07

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