more unix jokes - /dev/null

Paul De Bra debra at alice.UUCP
Sat Sep 24 07:22:21 AEST 1988


In article <192 at bales.UUCP> nat at bales.UUCP (Nathaniel Stitt) writes:
>Re: How to simulate "command > /dev/null" without a /dev/null.
>
>How about:
>
>	command | grep i_hope_this_does_not_appear_in_the_output
>
Try this for the command "cat" with your message as input.
Doesn't work, right? :-)

Won't work with this reply either.



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